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Noun: hog  hóg
  1. Domestic swine
    "The hog wallowed in the mud on the hot summer day";
    - pig, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofa
     
  2. [informal] A person regarded as greedy and pig-like
    "He acted like a real hog at the buffet, piling his plate with food";
    - pig [informal]
     
  3. A sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
    "The farmer separated the hogs from the older sheep";
    - hogget [Brit], hogg [Brit]
     
  4. [slang] A large motorcycle
    "He rode his hog down the highway"
Verb: hog (hogged,hogging)  hóg
  1. Take greedily; take more than one's share
    "Don't hog all the dessert!"

Derived forms: hogs, hogging, hogged

Type of: grab, lamb, selfish person, snaffle, snap up, swine

Part of: genus Sus, Sus

Encyclopedia: Hog, James