hog
IPA: hˈɑg
noun
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.
- (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
- (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
- (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
- (UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
- (nautical) The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
- (vulgar) A penis.
- (informal) A quahog (clam)
verb
- (transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
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