— hoglike , adj.
/hawg, hog/ , n. , v. , hogged, hogging .
n.
1. a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
2. a domesticated swine weighing 120 lb. (54 kg) or more, raised for market.
3. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
4. Slang.
a. a large, heavy motorcycle.
b. an impressively large luxury automobile.
5. Also, hogg, hogget . Brit.
a. a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.
b. the wool shorn from such a sheep.
c. any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.
6. Railroads Slang. a locomotive.
7. a machine for shredding wood.
8. Curling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.
9. go the whole hog , to proceed or indulge completely and unreservedly: We went the whole hog and took a cruise around the world. Also, go whole hog .
10. live high off or on the hog , to be in prosperous circumstances. Also, eat high off the hog .
v.t.
11. to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
12. to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
13. roach 3 (def. 3).
14. (in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
15. to shred (a piece of wood).
v.i.
16. Naut. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Cf. sag (def. 6a).
[ 1300-50; ME; cf. OE hogg- in place-names; perh. hwch, Cornish hogh swine ]