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hog

/hɒɡ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
  2. (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
  3. A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
  4. A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
  5. A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  6. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
  7. To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
  8. To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
  9. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  10. To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
  11. To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
  12. A quahog (clam)

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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