as in hogs
one who eats greedily or too much
all-you-can-eat buffets seem to encourage some people to become shameless pigs
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Recent Examples of pigs
Costumes of cartoon characters and puffy pigs, leopard outfits, Halloween masks and fuzzy hats.
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Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Also for a small fee, guests can use a wooden sledgehammer to smash a pumpkin and feed the pieces to three cows and a couple of pigs, all eager for the treats.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
Alana finds joy in feeding cows and pigs, collecting eggs from chickens, and meeting horses and llamas.
—Jordan Owens, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
In the summers, cattle graze across the acreage, with the ranch currently running about 200 cow-calf pairs, along with horses, chickens, and a few pigs.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Today, under the leadership of Pete’s son Bruce, Skylight Inn still buys its pigs from the same man Pete worked with since the beginning.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025
Based on the popular video games, the Angry Birds Movie franchise kicked off with the first title that was released in 2016 and centered on an island of flightless birds dealing with the arrival of a group of pigs.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
Use jig and pigs 18 to 25 feet deep along brush piles or main lake points with a gradual slope.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
While earlier incidents against Jewish sites, coming amid the backlash over the soaring death toll in Israel’s conflict in Gaza, sparked a media frenzy around this particularly act of brazen antisemitism, the pigs’ heads did not have the same effect.
—Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Also for a small fee, guests can use a wooden sledgehammer to smash a pumpkin and feed the pieces to three cows and a couple of pigs, all eager for the treats.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
Alana finds joy in feeding cows and pigs, collecting eggs from chickens, and meeting horses and llamas.
—Jordan Owens, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
In the summers, cattle graze across the acreage, with the ranch currently running about 200 cow-calf pairs, along with horses, chickens, and a few pigs.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Today, under the leadership of Pete’s son Bruce, Skylight Inn still buys its pigs from the same man Pete worked with since the beginning.
—Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025
Based on the popular video games, the Angry Birds Movie franchise kicked off with the first title that was released in 2016 and centered on an island of flightless birds dealing with the arrival of a group of pigs.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
Use jig and pigs 18 to 25 feet deep along brush piles or main lake points with a gradual slope.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
While earlier incidents against Jewish sites, coming amid the backlash over the soaring death toll in Israel’s conflict in Gaza, sparked a media frenzy around this particularly act of brazen antisemitism, the pigs’ heads did not have the same effect.
—Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pigs
Noun
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The animals are difficult to survey, but experts estimate that the United States is now home to at least six million feral hogs, descendants of those early farm animals and Eurasian wild boars that arrived later.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Decades before the internet, Gunness exploited men’s loneliness — luring them to her hog farm with the promise of romance and sending many to a shallow grave beneath the Indiana soil.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The animals are difficult to survey, but experts estimate that the United States is now home to at least six million feral hogs, descendants of those early farm animals and Eurasian wild boars that arrived later.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Decades before the internet, Gunness exploited men’s loneliness — luring them to her hog farm with the promise of romance and sending many to a shallow grave beneath the Indiana soil.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Pigs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pigs. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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