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Definition of hog noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

hog

noun
 
/hɒɡ/
 
/hɔːɡ/
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  1. (especially North American English) a pig, especially one that is kept and made fat for eatingTopics Animalsc2
  2. (British English) a male pig that has been castrated (= had part of its sex organs removed) and is kept for its meat compare boar, sow2Topics Animalsc2
    3. see also road hog, warthog
    Word Originlate Old English hogg, hocg, perhaps of Celtic origin and related to Welsh hwch and Cornish hoch ‘pig, sow’.
Idioms
go the whole hog
  1. (informal) to do something completely or to the highest degree
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