hogging

Verb

hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)

1. (informal, transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
   • Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.

   Synonyms:

   bogart

2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
   • Some, perhaps, would wish to plait or shave the tail and crimp or hog the mane to complete the picture.1880, William Day, The Racehorse in Training
   1. (transitive) (of a hedge) to trim up closely
3. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
4. (transitive) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
   • Although most of the buoyancy of a ship is provided by the middle part of the hull and comparatively little by the tapering ends, nothing will ever prevent people from putting heavy weights into the ends of a ship. One result of this is that many vessels tend to 'hog' (the two ends tend to droop...1991, J. E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Penguin UK, →ISBN, page 52
5. To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.

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