Any animal belonging to theSuidae family of mammals, especially thepig, thewarthog, and theboar.
(specifically) An adult swine(contrasted with apig, a young swine).
2005 April,Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission,→ISBN, pageI-9:
Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughterhogs.[…] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs andhogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
(informal) Agreedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
2021 August 1, Phil Copsey,The Calibre of Justice: Book 2 of the Tony Signorotto Series, in case of emergency press:
[…] 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 thathog,” Max said. “Looks expensive,” Chloe replied.
2023 July 11, Jake Tapper,All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller, Little, Brown,→ISBN:
[…] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop;[…] ride thathog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp,[…]
(nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Newton Bosworth,Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, volume 5, T. Davison, Lombard street, Whitefriars,page11:
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 thehog under the ship's bottom, and the other to guide and pull it up again close to the planks.
A device for mixing and stirring thepulp from whichpaper is made.
“’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.”
1961, Eric Partridge,The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang:
(nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
1920,The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers, Parliamentary paper:
I would not consider a ship unseaworthy because she had ahog. There is no danger to life in sailing in a hogged ship. I have sailed in vessels having a 2-ft.hog in the keel. The keel has been straightened by being filled in underneath.
2007, Charles E. Brodine, Michael J. Crawford, Christine F. Hughes,Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to USS Constitution, Government Printing Office,→ISBN,page84:
On inspection it was found that the vessel's keel had ahog of nearly fourteen inches.
1996, S. Joseph Krol,Northbridge High Football Camp[1], GMP Publishers,→ISBN,page 9:
He had to piss in the worst way, but the game was in play and there was no way he was going anywhere to relieve himself. It was right in the center of the Armand huddle that he got so desperate he pulled out hishog and let it go.
It wasn't like I was about to drop my panties and ride hishog in the basement; I got down and dirty, but not like that; I requested the seclusion of four walls.
hog (third-person singular simple presenthogs,present participlehogging,simple past and past participlehogged)
(transitive,informal) Togreedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
Hey! Quithogging all the blankets.
2000, Kate DiCamillo, chapter 15, inBecause of Winn-Dixie, New York: Scholastic Inc.:
The [...] air-conditioning unit didn't work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn-Dixie got in the library, hehogged it all.
1991, J. E. Gordon,Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Penguin UK,→ISBN,page52:
Although most of the buoyancy of a ship is provided by the middle part of the hull and comparatively little by the tapering ends, nothing will ever prevent people from putting heavy weights into the ends of a ship. One result of this is that many vessels tend to 'hog' (the two ends tend to droop and the middle of the hull tends to rise).
2013, H. I. Lavery,Shipboard Operations, Routledge,→ISBN,page267:
Difficulty may be encountered when securing cargo hatches on ships whichhog or sag and the water-tight integrity of the ship may be impaired.
(machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; tohog out.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page106
