as in pig
one who eats greedily or too much
if I had known that my guests were going to be such hogs, I would have prepared twice as much food
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as in pigs
one who eats greedily or too much
if I had known that my guests were going to be such hogs, I would have prepared twice as much food
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Rona Berg, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Think of ham as the thigh and butt portion of a hog’s back legs.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2024
Michael Irving, New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2024
The two comedies that managed to remain relevant while Ted Lasso was busy hogging all the nominations for three years were Abbott Elementary and Hacks.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 4 May 2024
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Noun
Behind a large glass case, haunches of Texas heritage hogs, along with a dizzying array of dry-aging strip and ribeye steaks, dry-age and cure.
—Rona Berg, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Think of ham as the thigh and butt portion of a hog’s back legs.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2024
Verb
The matter in our neighborhood is distributed pretty unevenly – the Sun hogs some 99.8% of all mass in the solar system, making our planets look like little pebbles and gas balls.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2024
The two comedies that managed to remain relevant while Ted Lasso was busy hogging all the nominations for three years were Abbott Elementary and Hacks.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 4 May 2024
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“Hog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hog. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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