hogging
抢劫,挤占,堵塞,占用空间
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Definitions
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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.
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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.
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hogged, hog·ging.
- : Nautical. to have less than the proper amount of sheer because of structural weakness; arch.Compare sag.
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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.