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Definition of hog
hogs
alsohog
1a : a domesticated swine especially when weighing more than 120 pounds (54 kilograms) — compare pig 1ab : any of various animals related to the domesticated swine
2 usually hogg British : a young unshorn sheep; also : wool from such a sheep
3a : a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy personb : one that uses something to excess old cars that are gas hogs
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Examples of hog in a Sentence
Don't be such a hog! Other people have to eat too!
The new software is a real memory hog.
Recent Examples of hog from the Web
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Junior and Senior Fair Shows of cattle, sheep, hogs, rabbits, chickens, horses and pets.
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WVLP to host annual hog roast WVLP will host their Annual Community Dinner hog roast from 4-8 p.m. July 14 at the Butterfield Pavilion, Evans and Calumet Avenues, Valparaiso.
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Fortunately, the eleventh-hour switch to hog jowl eliminated that issue.
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Photos and video from the scene showed livestock handlers trying to corral the hogs trotting along the interstate and rescue the animals left in the trailer.
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Iowa is the nation’s top producer of ethanol, along with corn, soybeans and hogs.
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Species common to the plantation include Whitetail deer (30+ years of trophy management), Eastern Turkey, Wild hogs, Bob Cats, Coyote and small game such as squirrels, rabbits, opossum and armadillo.
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The plan: Turn the zoo into a hog farm to feed German soldiers, while smuggling Jews through a secret tunnel and into the basement of their family home.
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Chinese hog prices are down around 25% since January, even though official numbers suggest supply is lower compared with last year.
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Origin and Etymology of hog
Middle English hogge, from Old English hogg
hog
Definition of hog
hogged
;hogging
transitive verb
1 : to cut (a horse's mane) short : roach
2 : to cause to arch
3 : to take in excess of one's due hog the credit
4 : to tear up or shred (some material, such as waste wood) into bits by machine
intransitive verb
: to become curved upward in the middle —used of a ship's bottom or keel
Examples of hog in a Sentence
He's been hogging the remote control all night.
Recent Examples of hog from the Web
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Pilu, an energetic hike up and over a steep cliff to Manly’s north on Freshwater Beach, was a pioneer; Sardinian chef-owner Giovanni Pilu has been an award-hogging presence for more than a decade.
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Airbus and Boeing will again hog the spotlight at the Paris Air Show with their battle for ever-larger slices of the lucrative pie in the sky.
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A bill to fine slow drivers who hog the fast lane of highways is creeping through North Carolina’s legislature.
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The top two title-hogging franchise, the New York Yankees (27) and St. Louis Cardinals (11), have combined to win 38 of 112 World Series crowns, a little more than one-third of them.
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Raim may be making too much of a case for storyboarders being the secret, unsung weapons behind credit-hogging auteurs.
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London, some say, is disrespectful in the water, paddles around people to hog waves and mouths off to older surfers.
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The xFi dashboard is designed to be intuitive, allowing users to easily track activity on the network and find devices that may be hogging too much data or not working properly.
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Transit, too, serves the poor and punishes them at the same time, since gentrifiers hog the real estate close to subway stops.
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First Known Use of hog
1769
HOG Defined for English Language Learners
hog
playDefinition of hog for English Language Learners
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: a pig
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: a male pig that has had its sex organs removed and that is raised for meat
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: a selfish or greedy person
hog
Definition of hog for English Language Learners
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: to take, keep, or use (something) in a way that prevents other people or things from having or using it
HOG Defined for Kids
Definition of hog for Students
1 : a usually large adult pig
2 : a greedy or dirty person
Definition of hog for Students
hogged
;hogging
: to take or use in a way that keeps others from having or using Stop hogging the ball.
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