/hawg"fish', hog"-/ , n. , pl. ( esp. collectively ) hogfish , ( esp. referring to two or more kinds or species ) hogfishes .
1. a large wrasse, Lachnolaimus maximus, of the western Atlantic Ocean, used for food.
2. any of various other fishes having a fancied resemblance to a hog, as the pigfish and logperch.
[ 1590-1600; trans. of ML porcopiscis PORPOISE. See HOG, FISH ]