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hogging

/hawg, hog/US // hɔg, hɒg //UK // (hɒɡ) //

抢劫,挤占,堵塞,占用空间

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a hoofed mammal of the Old World family Suidae, order Artiodactyla, comprising boars and swine.
    • : a domesticated swine weighing 120 pounds or more, raised for market.
    • : a selfish, gluttonous, or filthy person.
    • : Slang. a large, heavy motorcycle.an impressively large luxury automobile.
    • : Also hogg, hogget .British. a sheep about one year old that has not been shorn.the wool shorn from such a sheep.any of several other domestic animals, as a bullock, that are one year old.
    • : Railroads Slang. a locomotive.
    • : a machine for shredding wood.
    • : Curling. a stone that stops before reaching the hog score.
v.有主动词 verb
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    hogged, hog·ging.

    • : to appropriate selfishly; take more than one's share of.
    • : to arch upward like that of a hog.
    • : roach.
    • : to cut deeply into to reduce it to a shape suitable for final machining.
    • : to shred.
v.无主动词 verb
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    hogged, hog·ging.

    • : Nautical. to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch.Compare sag.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Another group date, a roast, featured the other men ripping into Moss for being an attention hog.

  • Because they knew even as they succeeded in hogging the spotlight people were snickering at them.

  • Now a particularly ugly strand of this phenomenon, Native American appropriation, is hogging the spotlight.

  • Not that David Macklovitch (aka Dave 1, aka the tall, skinny, Jewish one) is hogging credit for this.

  • Once denounced by McCain as ‘wacko birds’ hogging the spotlight, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are soaring.

  • Every American, and every camera-hogging legal pundit, is entitled to an opinion about the case.

  • I know I had many faults as a room-mate, but I believe my habit of selfishly hogging the bathroom was the worst.

  • The fact still remains that Epsilon had better be habitable or Pan-Asia will scream we're hogging it.

  • This is known as the "hogging down" method of harvesting corn.

  • "I think the way you two fellows are hogging the Ys and captaincies around here is disgraceful," complained the Codfish one night.

  • To bend or give way from heavy weight; to press down towards the middle; the opposite of hogging.

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