hog: Meaning and Definition of

hog

1. a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
2. a domesticated swine weighing 120 lb. (54 kg) or more, raised for market.
3. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
1. a large, heavy motorcycle.
2. an impressively large luxury automobile.
1. a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.
2. the wool shorn from such a sheep.
3. any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.
6. a locomotive.
7. a machine for shredding wood.
8. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.
9. to proceed or indulge completely and unreservedly: We went the whole hog and took a cruise around the world.
10. to be in prosperous circumstances.

1. to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
2. to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
3. roach (def. 3).
4. (in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
5. to shred (a piece of wood).

1. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Cf. sag (def. 6a).