road hog

road hog

noun
a driver who obstructs traffic by occupying parts of two lanes.

Origin:
1890–95

road-hog·gish, adjective
road-hog·gism, noun
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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road hog
 
n
informal a selfish or aggressive driver

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road hog definition


  1. n.
    someone who takes too much space on a road or highway; someone who seems to run other people off the road. : Get over! Road hog!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

road hog

A motorist whose vehicle straddles two traffic lanes, as in Stay in your own lane, you road hog! This expression uses hog in the sense of "a greedy or selfish person." [Colloquial; late 1800s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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