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hogs

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

猪,猪猡,猪只,猪肉

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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.

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Examples

  • The Cuban sandwich is made with pulled pork shoulder and ham (both from farm hogs, of course), as well as house-made pickles.

  • First of all, traditional incandescent light bulbs, which were invented 100 years ago, are tremendous electricity hogs.

  • For a gathering official themed “Connecting the Americas,” the disconnect may be what hogs the spotlight.

  • Sometimes he buried them on his farm; other times, he stored their body parts in his freezer or fed them to his hogs.

  • His game proved that teams of brilliant individuals don't necessarily turn into sides full of ball-hogs.

  • Wild hogs and bears had begun to harvest the nuts before the Cave-men returned.

  • The owner of the corn and hogs made strenuous objections to this appropriation of his property.

  • They carried away bacon, drove away fat hogs and beeves, and robbed the people of every species of moveable property.

  • The hogs which were transported from Europe to America succeeded better, and multiplied faster, than the sheep or goat.

  • They go in herds of two or three hundred together, and unite, like hogs, in the defence of each other.