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What does hog mean?

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Noun
  1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
  2. A greedy person; one who refuses to share.
  3. (slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
  4. (Britain) A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  5. (nautical) A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
  6. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
  7. (Britain, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
  8. (Britain, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
  9. (Britain, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
  2. (transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
  3. (nautical) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  4. (transitive, nautical) To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
Noun
  1. (informal) A quahog (clam)
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