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Is hog a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).Examples: "Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products."specifically
2. (informal) A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.Examples: "resource hog"; "Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog."; "Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog."Synonyms: pig, belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, epicure, gannet, glutton, gorgerinformal
3. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.Examples: "[…] bike. That rider looked relatively young. If he's a Border Force guy just doing a nine to five job back there, I'd like to know where he gets the money to ride that hog,” Max said. “Looks expensive,” Chloe replied."; "[…] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop; […] ride that hog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp, […]"slang
4. (UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.UK
5. (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.Examples: "Hog, on board a ship, is a sort of flat scrubbing-broom, formed by inclosing a number of short twigs of birch or such wood between two pieces of plank fastened together, and cutting off the ends of the twigs. It is used to scrape the filth from a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act of boot-topping. For this purpose they fit to this broom a long staff with two ropes; one of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the other to guide and pull it up again close to the planks."
6. (UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.Examples: "“’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown]^([sic]) for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That's seven bob.”"; "hog (pl hog). A shilling: orig. (ca 1670), c.; in C.19–20, low s."UKarchaiccountablehistoricalslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, informal) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.Examples: "Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets."; "The [...] air-conditioning unit didn't work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn-Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all."Synonyms: bogartinformaltransitive
2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.Examples: "Some, perhaps, would wish to plait or shave the tail and crimp or hog the mane to complete the picture."transitive
3. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.transitive
4. (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
5. (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).Examples: "Although most of the buoyancy of a ship is provided by the middle part of the hull and comparatively little by the tapering ends, nothing will ever prevent people from putting heavy weights into the ends of a ship. One result of this is that many vessels tend to 'hog' (the two ends tend to droop and the middle of the hull tends to rise)."; "Difficulty may be encountered when securing cargo hatches on ships which hog or sag and the water-tight integrity of the ship may be impaired."transitive
6. (machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.transitive
noun (English)
1. (informal) A quahog (clam).informal
Definition source: Wiktionary