hog

[ hawg, hog ]

noun

1. a hoofed mammal of the Old World family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
2. a domesticated swine weighing 120 pounds (54 kilograms) or more, raised for market.
3. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
4. Slang.
   1. a large, heavy motorcycle.
   2. an impressively large luxury automobile.
5. Also hogg, . British.
   1. a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.
   2. the wool shorn from such a sheep.
   3. 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.

verb (used with object)

, hogged, hog·ging.

1. to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
2. to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
3. roach ³( 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)

, hogged, hog·ging.

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

hog

/ hɒɡ /

noun

1. a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg
2. any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig
3. dialect.
   Alsohogg another name for hogget
4. informal.
   a selfish, greedy, or slovenly person
5. nautical a stiff brush, for scraping a vessel's bottom
6. nautical the amount or extent to which a vessel is hogged Compare sag
7. another word for camber
8. slang.
   a large powerful motorcycle
9. go the whole hog informal.
   to do something thoroughly or unreservedly

   if you are redecorating one room, why not go the whole hog and paint the entire house?

10. live high on the hog or live high off the hog informal.
    to have an extravagant lifestyle

verb

1. slang.
   to take more than one's share of
2. to arch (the back) like a hog
3. to cut (the mane) of (a horse) very short

Derived Forms

• ˈhogˌlike, adjective
• ˈhogger, noun

Other Words From

• hog·like adjective
• un·hogged adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hog¹

First recorded before 1100; Middle English hoge, Old English hogg; further origin uncertain; perhaps from Celtic; compare Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh “swine”

Word History and Origins

Origin of hog¹

Old English hogg, from Celtic; compare Cornish hoch

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. live high off / on the hog, Informal. to be in prosperous circumstances. Also eat high off the hog.
2. go the whole hog. whole hog. Also go whole hog.

More idioms and phrases containing hog

see go hog wild ; go whole hog ; high off the hog ; road hog .

Example Sentences

Saha also cautioned that running LLMs on a smartphone or laptop could hog the device's memory for a period of time.

From Science Daily

Love Is All Around is a member of a very small club of hits that hogged the charts in the 1990s to the point many couldn't listen to them any more.

From BBC

All that open space created by Toia’s block hogging has benefited teammates.

From Los Angeles Times

I sometimes would manage to come up with excuses to phone her, and we would have long conversations until one of us would be told by a sibling to stop hogging the line.

From Los Angeles Times

Another gripe linked to the amount of space people have on planes is double armrest hogging.

From BBC

Related Words

• boar
• pig
• piglet
• swine