Definitions for hog

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hog hog

Spelling: [hawg, hog]

IPA: /hɔg, hɒg/

Hog is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in hog (gho).

Definitions for hog

noun

1. a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
2. a domesticated swine weighing 120 pounds (54 kg) or more, raised for market.
3. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
4. Slang. a large, heavy motorcycle. an impressively large luxury automobile.
5. 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.
6. Railroads Slang. a locomotive.
7. a machine for shredding wood.
8. Curling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.

Idioms

1. go the whole hog, to proceed or indulge completely and unreservedly: Also, go whole hog.
2. live high off / on the hog, to be in prosperous circumstances. Also, eat high off the hog.

verb (used with object)

1. to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
2. to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
3. roach3 (def 3).
4. (in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
5. to shred (a piece of wood).

verb (used without object)

1. Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a).

Origin of hog

1300-50; Middle English; compare Old English hogg- in place-names; perhaps Celtic; compare Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh swine

Examples for hog

The top of the "hog's-back" had been flattened, and on it stood M'tela's palace.

Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

Why is the city once known as hog butcher to the world now offering a bacon martini at Moto?

Your chattel is for growing corn, not for corn in a hog's belly.

Why is the city once known as hog butcher to the world now offering it a bacon martini at Moto?

Hand­ printed posters at the Vance Avenue Market: CHICKEN BACKS, 12½¢ lb.; hog MAWS, 15¢: RUMPS, 19¢.

He just missed running into Banjo on the hog's Back by the skin of the teeth.

After strolling, you can sit outside and eat oysters at hog Island Oyster Company.

Hang tight, now—I'm going to beat that horse to the hog's Back.

Complacency is turned against us as the figure bending over the hog suddenly looks up … and speaks.