hogs

Noun

hog (plural hogs)

1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
   1. (specifically) An adult swine, at or above a certain body weight.
      • Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, →ISBN, page I-9
2. (figuratively, informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
   • resource hog

   Synonyms:

   pig, animal, belly-god, big back, buzgut, cormorant, dog, epicure, gannet, glutton

3. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
   • […] bike. That rider looked relatively young. If he's a Border Force guy just doing a nine to five job back there, I'd like to know where he gets the money to ride that hog,” Max said. “Looks expensive,” Chloe replied.2021 August 1, Phil Copsey, The Calibre of Justice: Book 2 of the Tony Signorotto Series, in case of emergency press
4. (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
5. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
   • Hog, on board a ship, is a sort of flat scrubbing-broom, formed by inclosing a number of short twigs of birch or such wood between two pieces of plank fastened together, and cutting off the ends of the twigs. It is used to scrape the filth from a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act...1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, volume 5, T. Davison, Lombard street, Whitefriars, page 11

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