Hog

/hɒɡ/ · noun

Meaning

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
2. (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
3. (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
4. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
5. (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
6. (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
8. (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.

Example Sentences

Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.

resource hog

Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.

Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog.

[…] bike. That rider looked relatively young. If he's a Border Force guy just doing a nine to five job back there, I'd like to know where he gets the money to ride that hog,” Max said. “Looks expensive,” Chloe replied.

[…] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop; […] ride that hog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp, […]

Hog, on board a ship, is a sort of flat scrubbing-broom, formed by inclosing a number of short twigs of birch or such wood between two pieces of plank fastened together, and cutting off the ends of the twigs. It is used to scrape the filth from a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act of boot-topping. For this purpose they fit to this broom a long staff with two ropes; one of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the other to guide and pull it up again close to the planks.

“’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown]^([sic]) for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That's seven bob.”

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• hogs
• 'og
• hogging
• hogged

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