n.
Function: verb
Inflected Form: hogged ; hog · ging
Date: 1769
transitive verb
1 : to cut (a horse's mane) short : ROACH
2 : to cause to arch
3 : to take in excess of one's due < hog the credit>
4 : to tear up or shred (as waste wood) into bits by machine
intransitive verb : to become curved upward in the middle ― used of a ship's bottom or keel