Definition of hog

• n. - A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.
• n. - A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
• n. - A young sheep that has not been shorn.
• n. - A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
• n. - A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
• v. t. - To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
• v. t. - To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
• v. i. - To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.