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English Idioms :: hog
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hoglike.html - See: EAT (LIVE) HIGH ON THE HOG or EAT (LIVE) HIGH OFF THE HOG, GO THE WHOLE HOG or GO WHOLE HOG, ROAD HOG. |
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English Idioms :: hog-tie
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hoglike.html - {v.}, {informal} 1. To tie ( an animal) so it is unable to move or escape. * /The Cowboy caught a calf and hog-tied it./ 2. To make someone unable to act freely; limit. * /The welfare worker wanted to help at once, but rules and regulations hog-tied her, so she could only report the case./ |
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New English :: hog
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hoglike.html - (Drugs) see angel dust |
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Traditional English :: hog
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hoglike.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a a domesticated pig, esp. a castrated male reared for slaughter. b any of several other pigs of the family Suidae, e.g. a wart-hog.
2 colloq. a greedy person.
3 (also hogg) Brit. dial. a young sheep before the first shearing. --v. (hogged, hogging)
1 tr. colloq. take greedily; hoard selfishly.
2 tr. & intr. raise (the back), or rise in an arch in the centre. go the whole hog colloq. do something completely or thoroughly. hog-tie US 1 secure by fastening the hands and feet or all four feet together.
2 restrain, impede. hogger n. hoggery n. hoggish adj. hoggishly adv. hoggishness n. hoglike adj. [OE hogg, hocg, perh. of Celt. orig.] |
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Traditional English :: hog's back
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hoglike.html - var. of HOGBACK. |
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Traditional English :: hogan
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hoglike.html - n.
an American Indian hut of logs etc. [Navajo] |
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