Hog
noun
A type of animal, similar to a pig, usually big and often kept for meat.
He keeps two hogs in his farm for pork.
Often appears as...
- wild hog
- hog farm
noun
A greedy or selfish person who takes more than they need.
Don't be a hog, leave some cake for the rest of us.
Often appears as...
- road hog
- attention hog
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To keep or use all of something for yourself and not share.
He's always hogging the computer when I need to use it.
Often appears as...
- hog the spotlight
- hog the credit
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A motorcycle, especially a large one.
He just bought a new hog to join the motorcycle club.
Often appears as...
- ride a hog
- buy a hog
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A type of animal, similar to a pig, usually big and often kept for meat.
He keeps two hogs in his farm for pork.
Often appears as...
- wild hog
- hog farm
noun
A greedy or selfish person who takes more than they need.
Don't be a hog, leave some cake for the rest of us.
Often appears as...
- road hog
- attention hog
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To keep or use all of something for yourself and not share.
He's always hogging the computer when I need to use it.
Often appears as...
- hog the spotlight
- hog the credit
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A motorcycle, especially a large one.
He just bought a new hog to join the motorcycle club.
Often appears as...
- ride a hog
- buy a hog
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Animal Context
Often refers to domesticated pigs, used in farming for meat production.
The hog market prices have increased this year.
Pro Tip 2/2Wild Variants
Wild hogs are undomesticated and can be more aggressive than farm-raised ones.
The wild hogs are destroying the fields.
Pro Tip 1/2Animal Context
Often refers to domesticated pigs, used in farming for meat production.
The hog market prices have increased this year.
Pro Tip 2/2Wild Variants
Wild hogs are undomesticated and can be more aggressive than farm-raised ones.
The wild hogs are destroying the fields.
Pro Tip 1/2Animal Context
Often refers to domesticated pigs, used in farming for meat production.
The hog market prices have increased this year.
Pro Tip 2/2Wild Variants
Wild hogs are undomesticated and can be more aggressive than farm-raised ones.
The wild hogs are destroying the fields.
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Video examples
Andres Lozano:...
and whether that can, in turn, help these patients with Alzheimer's disease. Now it turns out that in Alzheimer's disease, there's a huge deficit in glucose utilization in the brain. The brain is a bit of a hog when it comes to using glucose. It uses 20 percent of all your -- even though it only weighs two percent --
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Turning Hog Fat Into...
hog they must work quickly to process the animal to ensure nothing goes to waste a lot of people might wonder why I'm not helping him sometimes it's better with only one person slinging a knife that's right somebody somebody get cut one person slinging a nice enough that's plenty
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Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
I do not know what to be ugly out here and I'm talking over the other for that people call the ugly five you also got hyenas and what hogs the world chars and the wildebeest I would agree with you she's a dream that none of these animals is ugly but they are all different
Video examples
A Big Cat Wild Kill & a...
survive in this terrain filming is cut short by a catastrophe one that shows how precarious all life is in these mountains I was actually starting to enjoy being here with the crew and and seeing the leopard hogs on had one of its largest earthquakes ever in the
Video examples
Would winning the...
where the experimenters made some players rich quickly. The wealthy players started patronizing the poorer players and hogging the snacks they were meant to share. But just because a huge influx of cash isn't guaranteed to bring joy into your life
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Hogzilla PIPE National...
the size of cows and many had long horn like protrusions on their heads over time they evolved into the smaller wild boars that still roam forests around the world they may be smaller but today's wild hogs carry an arsenal of weapons
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Brady vs. Wild Hog PIPE...
in here and Lee's holding some feral hogs he captured earlier in a pen and I'm gonna get inside the pen to see what kind of damage they'll do to the leg all right the ballistic gel legs are now attached to a protective shield all I
Video examples
Rediscovering ourselves...
guess I sniff things out of the wind and air I circle and I loop and I double-cross and the wilderness told me so is a hog in me and a fish I know I come from salt blue water gates I scurried with shoals of hearings i blue
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Loose Wild Hogs PIPE...
the Hogs are too quick and the net misses them completely actually pretty good but what happened is we had a tether there's a little more forcefully respecting from the shot that should be
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The "dead zone" of the...
so that we had environmental goals and that we were working to solve them. The Midwest does not feed the world. It feeds a lot of chickens, hogs, cattle
Video examples
Andres Lozano:...
and whether that can, in turn, help these patients with Alzheimer's disease. Now it turns out that in Alzheimer's disease, there's a huge deficit in glucose utilization in the brain. The brain is a bit of a hog when it comes to using glucose. It uses 20 percent of all your -- even though it only weighs two percent --
Video examples
Turning Hog Fat Into...
hog they must work quickly to process the animal to ensure nothing goes to waste a lot of people might wonder why I'm not helping him sometimes it's better with only one person slinging a knife that's right somebody somebody get cut one person slinging a nice enough that's plenty
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 261 PIPE...
I do not know what to be ugly out here and I'm talking over the other for that people call the ugly five you also got hyenas and what hogs the world chars and the wildebeest I would agree with you she's a dream that none of these animals is ugly but they are all different
Video examples
A Big Cat Wild Kill & a...
survive in this terrain filming is cut short by a catastrophe one that shows how precarious all life is in these mountains I was actually starting to enjoy being here with the crew and and seeing the leopard hogs on had one of its largest earthquakes ever in the
Video examples
Would winning the...
where the experimenters made some players rich quickly. The wealthy players started patronizing the poorer players and hogging the snacks they were meant to share. But just because a huge influx of cash isn't guaranteed to bring joy into your life
Video examples
Hogzilla PIPE National...
the size of cows and many had long horn like protrusions on their heads over time they evolved into the smaller wild boars that still roam forests around the world they may be smaller but today's wild hogs carry an arsenal of weapons
Video examples
Brady vs. Wild Hog PIPE...
in here and Lee's holding some feral hogs he captured earlier in a pen and I'm gonna get inside the pen to see what kind of damage they'll do to the leg all right the ballistic gel legs are now attached to a protective shield all I
Video examples
Rediscovering ourselves...
guess I sniff things out of the wind and air I circle and I loop and I double-cross and the wilderness told me so is a hog in me and a fish I know I come from salt blue water gates I scurried with shoals of hearings i blue
Video examples
Loose Wild Hogs PIPE...
the Hogs are too quick and the net misses them completely actually pretty good but what happened is we had a tether there's a little more forcefully respecting from the shot that should be
Video examples
The "dead zone" of the...
so that we had environmental goals and that we were working to solve them. The Midwest does not feed the world. It feeds a lot of chickens, hogs, cattle
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Glenn Miller
American Musician
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
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Kurt Busiek
American Writer
Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you're creating, odds are, there's already someone similar in one way or another.
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Ruth Reichl
American Chef
My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.
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Jerry Lewis
American Comedian
What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.
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Carly Schroeder
American Actress
I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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Lewis B. Hershey
American General
When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.
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Charli XCX
British Musician
I love karaoke and totally hog the mic when I go out and do it with my friends.
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Lamar Jackson
American Athlete
I'm not a ball hog at all. It may look like it, but I'm not.
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Sam Rayburn
American Politician
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Jack Hanna
American Celebrity
Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
Quote examples
Glenn Miller
American Musician
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
Quote examples
Kurt Busiek
American Writer
Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you're creating, odds are, there's already someone similar in one way or another.
Quote examples
Ruth Reichl
American Chef
My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.
Quote examples
Jerry Lewis
American Comedian
What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.
Quote examples
Carly Schroeder
American Actress
I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
Quote examples
Lewis B. Hershey
American General
When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.
Quote examples
Charli XCX
British Musician
I love karaoke and totally hog the mic when I go out and do it with my friends.
Quote examples
Lamar Jackson
American Athlete
I'm not a ball hog at all. It may look like it, but I'm not.
Quote examples
Sam Rayburn
American Politician
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Quote examples
Jack Hanna
American Celebrity
Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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