Phrase Hound found 29 phrases and 24 compound words that contain hogs. The most common are listed below. Open hogs in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 29
- ball hogsplural of ball hog: In team sports, a player who keeps the ball to themselves, rather than passing it.
- road hogsplural of road hog
- sand hogsplural of sand hog: A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water.
- red river hogsplural of red river hog: A bush pig of species Potamochoerus porcus, native to forested areas of western and central Africa.
- bush hogsplural of bush hog: Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas, related to pigs.
- gas-hogsplural of gas-hog: A vehicle or machine that consumes a large amount of gasoline or fuel, or a person who owns or drives such a vehicle.
- ground hogsplural of ground hog: A red-brown marmot, Marmota monax, native to North America.
- hogs upthird-person singular simple present indicative of hog up: To take up, grab or claim all of something.
- Hoover hogsplural of Hoover hog: An animal which is eaten by poor people during hard times, especially an armadillo or jackrabbit, but also a possum or squirrel.
- Mexican hogsplural of Mexican hog: peccary
- mud-hogsThe meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- resource hogsplural of resource hog: A process which consumes a large amount of system resources compared to its importance or function.
- sea hogsplural of sea hog: A porpoise or dolphin.
- shear hogsplural of shear hog: A sheep after its first shearing.
- water hogsplural of water hog: The capybara.
- horned hogsplural of horned hog: Any mammal in the genus Babyrousa in the pig family Suidae, in which the upper tusk grows upward.
- truffle hogsplural of truffle hog: A domestic pig used for extraction of truffles.
- pygmy hogsplural of pygmy hog: Porcula salvania, a tiny pig of India.
- hogs' puddingsplural of hog's pudding: A kind of spicy sausage containing suet, bread, oatmeal, or barley.
- giant forest hogsplural of giant forest hog: Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, a large pig living in the jungles of West and Central Africa.
- left lane hogsplural of left lane hog: A motorist who occupies the left (especially leftmost) lane (passing lane) of a multi-lane road or highway, without moving over to allow faster-moving traffic to pass.
- right lane hogsplural of right lane hog: A motorist who occupies the right (especially rightmost) lane (passing lane) of a multi-lane road or highway, without moving over to allow faster-moving traffic to pass.
- black hogsplural of black hog: The Irish shilling of 13 pence, as opposed to the English 'white hog' shilling of 12 pence
- earth-hogsplural of earth-hog: An aardvark.
- hedge-hogsplural of hedge-hog: A small mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked, native to Afro-Eurasia.
Compound words 24
- hedgehogsplural of hedgehog: A small mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked, native to Afro-Eurasia.
- groundhogsplural of groundhog: A red-brown marmot, Marmota monax, native to North America.
- warthogsplural of warthog: A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa.
- hogsbackAlternative form of hogback: A sharp steep-sided ridge formed by the erosion of tilting strata,
- hogsheadsplural of hogshead: A cask of a certain size; its volume used as a measure of capacity for liquids, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52+¹⁄₂ imperial gallons (a half pipe).
- HogsettA surname from Norwegian.
- hogswallopNonsense, rubbish.
- hogsbacksplural of hogsback: A sharp steep-sided ridge formed by the erosion of tilting strata,
- Hogsedsplural of Hogsed: A surname.
- hogstiesplural of hogsty: An enclosure where pigs are kept, either a building or part of one.