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pig-out
[ pig-out ]
noun
- an instance of overindulging in eating; food binge.
pig out
verb
- slang.intr, adverb to gorge oneself
Word History and Origins
Origin of pig-out1
Idioms and Phrases
Eat ravenously, gorge oneself, as in The kids pigged out on the candy they had collected on Halloween . [ Slang ; early 1970s]Example Sentences
Brook said Montana has been the most serious about keeping wild pigs out.
It’s why park managers, in the 1980s, decided to keep the pigs out by building a 33-mile-long fence around the park’s perimeter.
Wyatt tells Fox News Cosby not only wanted to pig out on pizza but figured it would help to benefit a local restaurant in need amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Abe — who adored animals — wanted to pull the pig out, but he knew helping would be tricky and mess up his clean suit.
“I think about 50 years ago they started roasting a pig out there at the museum and now it’s an annual thing,” she said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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