OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 25455

hog

/hɒɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cerdo • puerco
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
codicioso
A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.
resource hog
motaza
A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
[…] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop; […] ride that hog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp, […]
[…] bike. That rider looked relatively young. If he's a Border Force guy just doing a nine to five job back there, I'd like to know where he gets the money to ride that hog,” Max s…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 25456

hog

/hɒɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acaparar • chupar • racanear
To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
Hey! Quit hogging all the blankets.
The [...] air-conditioning unit didn't work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn-Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all.
Phrases