1
: hog
especially : a young pig fattened for table use as fresh pork
2
: one resembling a fattened pig : fatty

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Before Stonewall, the idea that a gay rights movement could even exist—let alone flourish—was as likely as an airborne porker. — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 21 June 2025 Their Claude version reportedly would follow a user prompt and hunt around the user’s various computer files and open screens like a truffle-searching porker to fulfil the query request. — Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 The escape became a ruckus, involving about 20 people, including six Sebastopol police officers, a farmer, three businessmen and a gaggle of children who all got into the porker pursuit. — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024 Hyundai Like most any EV, the Ioniq 5 N is quite the porker at about 2,205 kilograms (4,860 pounds). — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for porker

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1568, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of porker was circa 1568

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“Porker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porker. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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porker

noun
: hog sense 1a
especially : a young pig fattened for use as fresh pork
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