hognoun [ C ]
uk/hɒɡ/us/hɑːɡ/hog noun [ C ] (ANIMAL)
US a pig, especially one that is allowed to grow large so that it can be eaten
UK a male pig with its sexual organs removed, kept for its meat
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boar
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Pigs
- boar
- pig
- piggy
- piglet
- porker
- sow 1
- swine
- warthog
- wild boar
hog noun [ C ] (PERSON)
informal disapproving someone who takes much more than a fair share of something, especially by eating too much:
You've eaten it all? You hog!
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Greedy
- avarice
- consumerism
- eye
- glutton
- gluttonous
- gluttony
- grasping
- greed
- greedy
- greedy guts
- growth-oriented
- materialism
- materialist
- materialistic
- mercenary
- money-grubbing
- pig
- sb's eyes are bigger than their belly/stomach idiom
- wolfish
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Unpleasant people in general
Idiom(s)
go hog wild
hogverb [ T ]
uk/hɒɡ/us/hɑːɡ/-gg- informalto take or use more than your share of something:
He's always hogging the bathroom (= spending too much time in the bathroom, so that no one else can use it).
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Keeping and storing things
- appropriate
- aside
- bank
- capture
- cling
- cling (on) to sth
- earmark
- lay
- maintain
- pack sth away
- put sth away
- repository
- reserve
- reserved
- storage
- store
- store sth up
- stow
- stow (sth) away
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Idiom(s)
hog the road