hog-round

adverb (or adjective)

: at a flat rate : without grading

sometimes it is wiser to sell hog-round

a common custom on southern cotton markets for buyers to take everything hog-round on a middling basis

—Clarence Poe

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

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