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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Recent Examples of hog
Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Instead of a Hollywood soundstage, the movie was shot on their family’s Ohio farm, a rural homestead filled with chickens, goats and, yes, hogs.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
Barry Collins, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
The ones who hog the entire arm rest and jab you with their sharp elbow when you're seated next to them.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Most of her siblings remained there, and Gates would spend summers with his uncle Herbert, who owned a 500-acre farm, growing corn, cotton and soy beans and raising cattle and hogs.
—Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Instead of a Hollywood soundstage, the movie was shot on their family’s Ohio farm, a rural homestead filled with chickens, goats and, yes, hogs.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
Verb
Microsoft has responded to reports that the new update to Windows 11 is hogging huge chunks of users’ disk space.
—Barry Collins, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
The ones who hog the entire arm rest and jab you with their sharp elbow when you're seated next to them.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hog
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The races happen daily and feature pigs and wiener dogs dressed like hot dogs.Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 20 July 2017
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The league has rescued monkeys, pigs, ponies, even a drug dealer's cougar, and thousands of dogs and cats every year.John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
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During his first term, Trump’s Justice Department sued Google for monopolizing the online search market, a case that the Biden administration saw to completion, resulting this year in the most significant anti-monopoly ruling against a tech giant in a generation.Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
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In August, Google lost the biggest antitrust trial in decades after a federal judge ruled that Google monopolized the online search engine market.Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2024
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At least one ex-British Mastiff armored truck cornered the Russians in a clutch of homes in Kostyantynopolske.David Axe, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Viewers watched in horror as Colby was cornered by an angry stallion who had charged into the stables.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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Yet she isn’t allowed to bogart the apercus; each of the characters gets a chance to shine, though some all but cry out for larger parts, larger lily pads on which to brood.Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
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In Schutz’s attempt to reflect reality, her own gestures bogart the image, reopening a decades-old wound without bringing a new dimension of understanding to it.Kimberly Drew, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2022
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Surprising Fact On a body weight basis, children 2 to 5 years old consume about twice as much of the red dye through food as the general population, according to the FDA.Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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How to Manage: To manage a lack of sleep from alcohol, either eliminate it from your diet or consume moderately during the day, making sure to stop imbibing well before your bedtime.Taylor Lane, Flow Space, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Hog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hog. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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