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Definition of: hog
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(hôg, hog) noun
1. An omnivorous ungulate having a long mobile snout with flat, expanded end containing the nostrils; especially, any domestic variety of the wild boar (family Suidae) bred and raised for its meat, called pork.
2. Some animal like the foregoing, as the peccary, warthog, etc.
3. Colloq. A filthy, gluttonous person.
4. A stirrer in a paper–pulp vat.
—v. hogged, hog·ging v.t.
1. U.S. Slang To take more than one's share of; grab selfishly.
2. To arch (the back) upward like a hog's.
3. To cut short, as a horse's mane.
—v.i.
4. To sag at both ends: said of ships. [OE hogg]
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