Hog (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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.
    • a large, heavy motorcycle.
    • an impressively large luxury automobile.
  5. Also hogg, hogget .British.
    • a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.
    • the wool shorn from such a sheep.
    • any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.
  6. a locomotive.
  7. a machine for shredding wood.
  8. 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. roach3 (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. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch.
Idioms
  1. See entry at whole hog.
  2. to be in prosperous circumstances.
noun
  1. a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg
  2. any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig
  3. Also: hogg British dialect, Australian and NZ another name for hogget
  4. a selfish, greedy, or slovenly person
  5. a stiff brush, for scraping a vessel's bottom
  6. the amount or extent to which a vessel is hogged
  7. another word for camber (def. 4)
  8. a large powerful motorcycle
  9. to do something thoroughly or unreservedly
  10. to have an extravagant lifestyle
verb hogs, hogging or hogged (tr)
  1. 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
Hog (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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