How do you use the word "hog" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hog": They're eating high on the hog. If I win the lottery, I'll be able to live high on the hog.

Hog Meaning

/hɒɡ/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAny animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

nounAn adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).

Sentence Examples

They're eating high on the hog.

If I win the lottery, I'll be able to live high on the hog.

The authorities released fifteen neglected pigs from a hog barn.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

pig

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He tends to ____ all the food at parties, leaving nothing for others.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The large ____ wallowed in the thick mud to keep itself cool from the hot afternoon sun.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to beat, hew, forge”). Cognate with Old High German houwan, Old Saxon hauwan, Old English hēawan (English hew). Hog originally meant a castrated male pig, hence a sense of “the cut one”. (Compare hogget for a castrated male sheep.) More at hew. Alternatively from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- and thus cognate with Welsh hwch (“sow”) and Cornish hogh (“pig”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products." — 2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, →ISBN, page I-9:

"Yeah, whatever you old dried up fat hog." — 1998 June 3, “Conjoined Fetus Lady”, in South Park, season 2, episode 5:

"[…] 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 said. “Looks expensive,” Chloe replied." — 2021 August 1, Phil Copsey, The Calibre of Justice: Book 2 of the Tony Signorotto Series, in case of emergency press:

"[…] bike balanced almost vertically while coasting to a nearly complete stop; […] ride that hog one hundred miles an hour up and off a ramp, […]" — 2023 July 11, Jake Tapper, All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller, Little, Brown, →ISBN:

"Hog, on board a ship, is a sort of flat scrubbing-broom, formed by inclosing a number of short twigs of birch or such wood between two pieces of plank fastened together, and cutting off the ends of the twigs. It is used to scrape the filth from a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act of boot-topping. For this purpose they fit to this broom a long staff with two ropes; one of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the other to guide and pull it up again close to the planks." — 1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, volume 5, T. Davison, Lombard street, Whitefriars, page 11:

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