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[hawg, hog] noun, verb, hogged, hog⋅ging.
–noun
1. a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
2. a domesticated swine weighing 120 lb. (54 kg) or more, raised for market.
3. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
4. Slang.
a. a large, heavy motorcycle.
b. an impressively large luxury automobile.
5. Also, hogg, hogget. British.
a. a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.
b. the wool shorn from such a sheep.
c. any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.
6. Railroads Slang. a locomotive.
7. a machine for shredding wood.
8. Curling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.
–verb (used with object)
9. to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
10. to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
11. roach 3 (def. 3).
12. (in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
13. to shred (a piece of wood).
–verb (used without object)
14. Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def. 6a).
15. go the whole hog, to proceed or indulge completely and unreservedly: We went the whole hog and took a cruise around the world. Also, go whole hog.
16. live high off or on the hog, to be in prosperous circumstances. Also, eat high off the hog.

Origin:
1300–50; ME; cf. OE hogg- in place-names; perh. < Celtic; cf. Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh swine


hoglike, adjective
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