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View synonyms for pig-out

pig-out

[ pig-out ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. an instance of overindulging in eating; food binge.


pig out

verb

  1. slang.
    intr, adverb to gorge oneself
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pig-out1

First recorded in 1975–80; noun use of verb phrase pig out
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Idioms and Phrases

Eat ravenously, gorge oneself, as in The kids pigged out on the candy they had collected on Halloween . [ Slang ; early 1970s]
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Example Sentences

Or just maybe the occasional pig-out does soothe the soul and make for a happier, healthier individual.

Bella can pig out whenever there's a carton of Ben Jerry's in the freezer.

Greta, with one eye on her governess, was stealthily cutting a pig out of orange peel.

And Grace has got up at four o'clock every morning for a week and stayed up till midnight, trying to get that pig out of sight.

Both go out, and begin to get the real pig out, and between the two they pull it out very well.

An old man, with the stump of a clay pipe in his lips, was turning his pig out to grass as I approached.

A fello what does that is makin a pig out of hisself I think.

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