Hog

Hog

Hog may refer to:

* Pig
* Harley Owners Group
* The stock ticker symbol for Harley-Davidson (HOG)
* The Hogs (American football), the famed offensive line of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League
* M60 machine gun, also referred to as a 'pig'
* Arkansas Razorbacks
* Hogging and sagging, a condition on a ship where the keel is under a bending load, forced upwards amidships and sagging at bow and stern. In wooden ships, this can be come a permanent deformation of the keel.
* Hogging, a practice among certain men that entails seeking out obese women for sexual encounters
* Server hog, a user, program or system that places excessive load on a server such that the server performance is degraded
* a slang term for the penis
* The Hammer of God, a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke
* Higher-order grammar, a formal grammar framework
* Heart of Greed
* Head of Government
* House of Guitars, a famous guitar store in Rochester, New York
* Water hog, a machine that removes water from cricket pitches and putting greens

Further disambiguation

* Hand of God
* Pig
* Hogg
* Hug


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  • Hog — (h[o^]g), n. [Prob. akin to E. hack to cut, and meaning orig., a castrated boar; cf. also W. hwch swine, sow, Armor. houc h, hoc h. Cf. {Haggis}, {Hogget}, and {Hoggerel}.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) A quadruped of the genus {Sus}, and allied genera of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hog — [hôg, häg] n. pl. hogs or, for 1 & 2, hog [ME < OE hogg < ? or akin to ON höggva, to cut (akin to OE heawan, HEW), in basic sense “castrated”] 1. any swine, esp. a domesticated adult (Sus scrofa) ready for market, or, in England, a… …   English World dictionary

  • Hog — Hog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hogging}.] 1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. Smart. [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Hog — Hog, v. i. (Naut.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog s back; said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Hog — Hog, 1) (Hog Head), Vorgebirge an der Küste der Grafschaft Kerry in der irischen Provinz Munster; 2) Inselgruppe daselbst; 3) (Hog Island), Insel an der Küste Virginiens im Atlantischen Ocean (Nordamerika); 4) Insel im St. Clairsee in Obercanada; …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • hog — [n1] pig boar, cob roller*, oinker*, piggy, piglet, porker*, razorback, shoat, sow, swine, warthog; concepts 394,400 hog [n2] glutton cormorant, epicure, gorger*, gormandizer, gourmand, greedy eater, hefty eater, pig*, swine*; concept 412 hog [v] …   New thesaurus

  • hog — ► NOUN 1) a pig, especially a castrated male reared for slaughter. 2) informal a greedy person. ► VERB (hogged, hogging) informal ▪ take or hoard selfishly. ● go the whole hog Cf. ↑ …   English terms dictionary

  • hog|ly — «HOG lee, HG », adjective, li|er, li|est. = hoggish. (Cf. ↑hoggish) –hog´li|ness, noun …   Useful english dictionary

  • hog it — (slang) 1. To eat greedily 2. To live in a slovenly fashion • • • Main Entry: ↑hog …   Useful english dictionary

  • høg — sb., en, e, ene, i sms. høge , fx høgenæb …   Dansk ordbog

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