a hoofed mammal of the Old World family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
a domesticated swine weighing 120 pounds (54 kilograms) or more, raised for market.
a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
Slang.
a large, heavy motorcycle.
an impressively large luxury automobile.
Also hogg,hogget. British.
a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.
RailroadsSlang. a locomotive.
a machine for shredding wood.
Curling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.
verb (used with object),hogged,hog·ging.
to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
roach3 (def. 3).
(in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
to shred (a piece of wood).
verb (used without object),hogged,hog·ging.
Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch.Compare sag (def. 6a).
Idioms for hog
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.
live high off / on the hog, to be in prosperous circumstances.Also eat high off the hog.
Origin of hog
First recorded before 1100; Middle English hoge, Old English hogg; further origin uncertain; perhaps from Celtic; compare Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh “swine”
Data centers are energy hogs, with their cooling needs—those servers give off a lot of heat—accounting for as much as 40% of consumption.
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Hand printed posters at the Vance Avenue Market: CHICKEN BACKS, 12½¢ lb.; HOG MAWS, 15¢: RUMPS, 19¢.
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Complacency is turned against us as the figure bending over the hog suddenly looks up … and speaks.
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After strolling, you can sit outside and eat oysters at Hog Island Oyster Company.
Why is the city once known as hog butcher to the world now offering a bacon martini at Moto?
Why Chicago Is America's Hottest City|The Daily Beast|February 28, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Why is the city once known as hog butcher to the world now offering it a bacon martini at Moto?
Why Chicago Is Now America's Hottest City|Raymond Sokolov|February 28, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Showing that in early times there was a hog warden, or person who collected the king's hog-rent in Hereford.
Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850|Various
The inside of the hog is washed with bay rum, and sweet majorum is put in.
Peck's Compendium of Fun|George W. Peck
I never can remember, it is so hard to say—the flesh of the hog salted.'
Lorna Doone|R. D. Blackmore
Barney built a fire under the big, smoke-blackened cauldron Hetty used for cooking the hog swill.
Make Mine Homogenized|Rick Raphael
The skeleton approaches that of the ox and of the hog, but it presents differences from that of any other animal.
Eccentricities of the Animal Creation.|John Timbs
British Dictionary definitions for hog
hog
/ (hɒɡ) /
noun
a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg
US and Canadianany artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig
Also: hoggBritishdialect, Australian and NZ another name for hogget
informala selfish, greedy, or slovenly person
nauticala stiff brush, for scraping a vessel's bottom
nauticalthe amount or extent to which a vessel is hoggedCompare sag (def. 6)
another word for camber (def. 4)
slang, mainlyUSa large powerful motorcycle
go the whole hoginformalto do something thoroughly or unreservedlyif you are redecorating one room, why not go the whole hog and paint the entire house?
live high on the hogorlive high off the hoginformal, mainlyUSto have an extravagant lifestyle
verbhogs, hoggingorhogged(tr)
slangto take more than one's share of
to arch (the back) like a hog
to cut (the mane) of (a horse) very short
Derived forms of hog
hogger, nounhoglike, adjective
Word Origin for hog
Old English hogg, from Celtic; compare Cornish hoch