ALL meanings of hog
hog
H h - noun hog pig 1
- noun hog greedy person 1
- transitive verb hog monopolize 1
- noun hog fat person 1
- noun hog large motorcycle 1
- noun hog a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine. 1
- noun hog a domesticated swine weighing 120 pounds (54 kg) or more, raised for market. 1
- noun hog a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person. 1
- noun hog Slang. a large, heavy motorcycle. an impressively large luxury automobile. 1
- noun hog Also, hogg, hogget. British. a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn. the wool shorn from such a sheep. any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old. 1
- noun hog Railroads Slang. a locomotive. 1
- noun hog a machine for shredding wood. 1
- noun hog Curling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score. 1
- verb with object hog to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of. 1
- verb with object hog to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog. 1
- verb with object hog roach3 (def 3). 1
- verb with object hog (in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining. 1
- verb with object hog to shred (a piece of wood). 1
- verb without object hog Nautical. (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch. Compare sag (def 6a). 1
- idioms hog go the whole hog, to proceed or indulge completely and unreservedly: We went the whole hog and took a cruise around the world. Also, go whole hog. 1
- idioms hog live high off / on the hog, to be in prosperous circumstances. Also, eat high off the hog. 1
- noun hog A domesticated pig, especially one over 120 pounds (54 kg) and reared for slaughter. 1
- noun Technical meaning of hog (jargon) A term used to describe programs, hardware or people that use more than their share of a system's resources, especially those which noticeably degrade interactive response. The term is usually qualified, e.g. "memory hog", "core hog", "hog the processor", "hog the disk". E.g. "A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires." User also hog resources, particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many people use it. Once a disk hog fills up one file system, he typically finds a new one to consume, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important new project to complete. 1
- countable noun hog A hog is a pig. In British English, hog usually refers to a large male pig that has been castrated, but in American English it can refer to any kind of pig. 0
- verb hog If you hog something, you take all of it in a greedy or impolite way. 0
- noun hog a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg 0
- noun hog any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig 0
- noun hog a selfish, greedy, or slovenly person 0
- noun hog a stiff brush, for scraping a vessel's bottom 0
- noun hog the amount or extent to which a vessel is hogged 0
- noun hog a large powerful motorcycle 0
- verb hog to take more than one's share of 0
- verb hog to arch (the back) like a hog 0
- verb hog to cut (the mane) of (a horse) very short 0
- noun hog any swine, esp. a domesticated adult (Sus scrofa) ready for market, or, in England, a castrated boar 0
- noun hog a young sheep not yet shorn 0
- noun hog a selfish, greedy, gluttonous, coarse, or filthy person 0
- noun hog a large, heavy motorcycle 0
- verb transitive hog to arch (the back) like a hog's 0
- verb transitive hog to cause (a ship, keel, etc.) to be higher in the center than at the ends 0
- verb transitive hog to trim (a horse's mane) in order to make it bristly 0
- verb transitive hog to grab greedily; take all of or an unfair share of 0
- intransitive verb hog to be higher in the center than at the ends, as the bottom of a ship 0