- the furthest extent; everything: With them it was whole hog or nothing.
- complete and thorough; wholehearted: Any whole-hog endorsement of the doctrine would leave its proponent overexposed to counterarguments.
- completely; wholeheartedly: I've long hated this idea that you can't just jump whole hog into radical feminism.
- to do something to the fullest extent; proceed with or indulge in something completely and unreservedly: The townspeople went the whole hog for the celebration.
- the whole or total extent (esp in the phrase go the whole hog)
