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drove one's pigs to market

drove one's pigs to market is the simple past of drive one's pigs to market.

Meaning of drive one's pigs to market

Verb

drive one's pigs to market (third-person singular simple present drives one's pigs to market, present participle driving one's pigs to market, simple past drove one's pigs to market, past participle driven one's pigs to market)

  1. (slang) To snore very loudly.
    • […] when he suddenly declared his intention of retiring to bed, which he immediately did, and in about ten minutes after he might have been heard "driving his pigs to market"—if the reader will allow the phrase.1868, Mary Chester, Memoirs of Madam Chester of Manchester, by herself, page 12

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What is drove one's pigs to market the simple past of?
Drove one's pigs to market is the simple past of drive one's pigs to market.

Words near drove one's pigs to market in the dictionary

  1. drove down
  2. drove in
  3. drove into the ground
  4. drove it down
  5. drove off
  6. drove one's pigs to market
  7. drove out
  8. drove road
  9. drove roads
  10. drove someone crazy
  11. drove someone insane

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