Definitions for pig

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IPA: /pɪg/

Pig is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in pig (gip).

Definitions for pig

noun

1. a young swine of either sex, especially a domestic hog, Sus scrofa, weighing less than 120 pounds (220 kg)
2. any wild or domestic swine.
3. the flesh of swine; pork.
4. Informal. a person of piggish character, behavior, or habits, as one who is gluttonous, very fat, greedy, selfish, or filthy.
5. Slang. an immoral woman; prostitute.
6. Slang: Disparaging. a police officer.
7. Slang. an extremely rude, ill-mannered person, especially one who is sexist or racist.
8. Machinery. any tool or device, as a long-handled brush or scraper, used to clear the interior of a pipe or duct.
9. Metallurgy. an oblong mass of metal that has been run while still molten into a mold of sand or the like, especially such a mass of iron from a blast furnace. one of the molds for such masses of metal. metal in the form of such masses. pig iron.
10. an earthenware crock, pot, pitcher, or jar.
11. potter's clay; earthenware as a material.

Idioms

1. on the pig's back, Australian Slang. in a fortunate position.
2. pig it, to live like a pig, especially in dirt. to lead a disorganized, makeshift life; live without plan or pattern.

Verb phrases

1. pig out, Slang. to overindulge in eating:

verb (used with object)

1. to mold (metal) into pigs.
2. Informal. to eat (something) quickly; gulp:

verb (used without object)

1. to bring forth pigs; farrow.

Origin of pig

1175-1225; Middle English pigge young pig, with doubled consonant appropriate to terms for smaller animals (cf. dog, frog¹) but wit

Examples for pig

A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Because too often, YouTube fame is as fleeting as a thirty-second video of a pig saving a goat from drowning.

He has said he believes Al Sharpton is a “race pimp” and a pig.

Unfortunately, neither of our teams had pinpointed the pig's burial site.

Mr. COX said he could not smelt a pig, but he thought he smelt a rat.

pig [growling sotto voce behind his hand, mock-furtive as a Disneyland Foxy Loxy]: Take 35 percent off the top and split!

When we last left him, Hannibal convinced the pig farmer to eat his own face.

I hung it up this morning, for the pig with the black feet was eating it.

He would have stuck that officer like a pig if he had seen him then.

Unless a pig is very small it is seldom sent to table whole.