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high off the hog

Variant of hog

noun pl. hogs, hog

  1. any swine, esp. a domesticated adult (Sus scrofa) ready for market, or, in England, a castrated boar
  2. Brit. a young sheep not yet shorn
  3. Informal a selfish, greedy, gluttonous, coarse, or filthy person
  4. Slang a large, heavy motorcycle

Origin: ME < OE hogg < ? or akin to ON höggva, to cut (akin to OE heawan, hew), in basic sense “castrated”

transitive verb hogged, hogging

    1. to arch (the back) like a hog's
    2. to cause (a ship, keel, etc.) to be higher in the center than at the ends
  1. to trim (a horse's mane) in order to make it bristly
  2. Slang to grab greedily; take all of or an unfair share of

intransitive verb

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