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sand-hog

sand-hog is the alternative form of sandhog.

Meaning of sandhog

Noun

sandhog (plural sandhogs)

  1. (US, also, figuratively, slang) A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water.
    • Sandhogs working behind a hydraulic shield excavated the riverbed silt inch by inch and installed linking sections of cast-iron tubes as they went. The digging chamber was filled with compressed air pumped in from the surface. The work was dangerous. The men who did the work, the sandhogs, were...1975, E.L. Doctorow, chapter XIII, in Ragtime, page 77
    Synonyms:
    sandhogger

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Forms of sand-hog

pluralsand-hogs

Questions about sand-hog

What is sand-hog the alternative form of?
Sand-hog is the alternative form of sandhog.

Words near sand-hog in the dictionary

  1. sand-eel
  2. sand-eels
  3. sand-flag
  4. sand-flags
  5. sand-grouse
  6. sand-hog
  7. sand-hogs
  8. sand-hopper
  9. sand-hoppers
  10. sand-jet
  11. sand-jets

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