hog

UK: /ˈhɒg/ US: /hɔg, hɑg/ ,(hôg, hog)

Inflections of 'hog' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

hogs

v 3rd person singular

hogging

v pres p

hogged

v past

hogged

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

hog /hɔg, hɑg/   n., v., hogged, hog•ging. 
n. [countable]

1. Animal Husbandry a pig or a swine, esp. one grown for eating.
2. a selfish or filthy person.

v. [~ + object]

3. to take more than one's share of:
   He hogged all the food at the cookout.

Idioms

4. Idioms go (the) whole hog, to do something thoroughly:
   Let's go whole hog and re-do the entire kitchen.
5. Idioms live or eat high off or on the hog, [no obj] to live very comfortably and prosperously.

hog•gish, adj. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

hog  (hôg, hog), n., v., hogged, hog•ging. 
n. 

1. Mammals a hoofed mammal of the family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
2. Animal Husbandry a domesticated swine weighing 120 lb. (54 kg) or more, raised for market.
3. a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
4. Slang Terms
   • a large, heavy motorcycle.
   • an impressively large luxury automobile.
5. Also, hogg, hogget. [Brit.]
   • Animal Husbandry a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.
   • Animal Husbandry the wool shorn from such a sheep.
   • Animal Husbandry any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.
6. Rail Transport a locomotive.
7. Mechanical Engineering a machine for shredding wood.
8. Sport [Curling.] a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.
9. Idioms go the whole hog, to proceed or indulge completely and unreservedly:
   We went the whole hog and took a cruise around the world.
   Also, go whole hog. 
10. Idioms live high off or on the hog, to be in prosperous circumstances. Also, eat high off the hog. 

v.t. 

11. to appropriate selfishly;
    take more than one's share of.
12. to arch (the back) upward like that of a hog.
13. roach³ (def. 3).
14. Mechanical Engineering (in machine-shop practice) to cut deeply into (a metal bar or slab) to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
15. Mechanical Engineering to shred (a piece of wood).

v.i. 

16. Naval Terms [Naut.] (of a hull) to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness;
    arch. Cf. sag (def. 6a).

• Celtic; compare Welsh hwch, Cornish hogh swine
• 1300–50; Middle English; compare Old English hogg- in place-names; perh.

hog′like′, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

hog / hɒɡ/ noun

1. a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg
2. any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig
3. Also: hogg
   another name for hogget
4. a selfish, greedy, or slovenly person
5. the amount or extent to which a vessel is hogged
   Compare sag6
6. go the whole hog ⇒ to do something thoroughly or unreservedly

verb (hogs, hogging, hogged)(transitive)

1. to take more than one's share of
2. to arch (the back) like a hog
3. to cut (the mane) of (a horse) very short

Etymology: Old English hogg, from Celtic; compare Cornish hoch

ˈhogger noun

ˈhogˌlike adjective