1. Domestic swine
   "The pig wallowed in the mud on the hot summer day";
   - hog, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofa
    
2. [informal] A person regarded as greedy and pig-like
   "He acted like a real pig at the buffet, piling his plate with food";
   - hog [informal]
    
3. [informal] A person with poor hygiene and low standards of tidiness
   "The pig's apartment was a mess of dirty dishes and unwashed clothes";
   - slob [Brit, informal], sloven, slovenly person, dag [Austral, NZ, informal], schlump [N. Amer, informal], shlump [N. Amer, informal]
    
4. [informal] Uncomplimentary term for a policeman
   "The criminals scattered when they heard the pigs were coming";
   - bull [US, informal], cop [informal], copper [Brit, informal], bizzy [UK, dialect, informal], peeler [Brit, archaic], rozzer [Brit, informal], fed [Brit, informal]
    
5. A crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace
   "The foundry produced pigs of iron for further processing"
    
6. Mould consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast
   "The foundry workers prepared the pig bed for the next casting";
   - pig bed

1. Give birth to (piglets)
   "The sow pigged during the night";
   - farrow
    
2. [informal] Live like a pig, in squalor
   "The college students pigged it in their messy apartment";
   - pig it [informal]
    
3. [informal] Eat greedily
   "The children pigged on the Halloween candy";
   - devour, guttle [rare], raven [archaic]

Derived forms: pigging, pigged, pigs

Type of: bear, birth, bobby [Brit, informal], cast, deliver, eat, give birth, have, ingot, live, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], officer, plod [Brit, informal], police officer, selfish person, swine, vulgarian

Part of: genus Sus, Sus

Encyclopedia: Pig, Chris