pig out

as in to gorge
to eat greedily or to excess one holiday when you're expected to pig out on junk food

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  • People are talking about the storm while the gulls gorge on bread and peck at chicken bones.
    Deborah Levy, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Scheming girlfriends, questionable business partners, a fleet of lawyers and consultants gorging themselves on fees and a whole lot of other jockeying around Sumner Redstone’s fortune and his business empire.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025
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  • One account published in 2002 by Russian official Konstantin Pulikovsky claimed that the train carried cases of Bordeaux and Beaujolais wine from Paris, and that passengers feasted on live lobster and pork barbecue.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
  • With no football to feed, Blake Lawrence thinks DU hockey should continue to feast at the Frozen Four.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Pig out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pig%20out. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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