hog

hog [hôg, häg]

n.

pl. hogs or, for 1 & 2, hog [ME < OE hogg < ? or akin to ON höggva, to cut (akin to OE heawan, HEW), in basic sense “castrated”]

1. any swine, esp. a domesticated adult (Sus scrofa) ready for market, or, in England, a castrated boar: see PIG (sense 1)

2. Brit. a young sheep not yet shorn

3. Informal a selfish, greedy, gluttonous, coarse, or filthy person

4. Slang a large, heavy motorcycle

vt.

hogged, hogging

1.

a) to arch (the back) like a hog's

b) to cause (a ship, keel, etc.) to be higher in the center than at the ends

2. to trim (a horse's mane) in order to make it bristly

☆ 3. Slang to grab greedily; take all of or an unfair share of

vi.

to be higher in the center than at the ends, as the bottom of a ship

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go the whole hog or go whole hog

Slang to go all the way; do or accept something fully

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☆ high on the hog or high off the hog

Informal in a luxurious or costly way

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☆ hog wild

Informal highly excited; without moderation or restraint