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