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hog's leg

hog's leg is the alternative form of hogleg.

Meaning of hogleg

Noun

hogleg (plural hoglegs)

  1. (US, slang) Any large-caliber handgun, typically with a long barrel.
    • A plain-clothes man with his coat off and his hog's leg looking like a fire plug against his ribs took one eye off his evening paper […].1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 228

Questions about hog's leg

What is hog's leg the alternative form of?
Hog's leg is the alternative form of hogleg.

Words near hog's leg in the dictionary

  1. hog's bread
  2. hog's breads
  3. hog's eye
  4. hog's face
  5. hog's garlic
  6. hog's leg
  7. hog's potato
  8. hog's pudding
  9. hog's snout
  10. hog's wort
  11. hog's-back

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