1A domesticated pig, especially one over 120 pounds (54 kg) and reared for slaughter.

1. 1.1 A feral pig.
   野猪
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   • This included eradication of mosquitoes, plus elimination of non-native species such as water hyacinth by flooding with salt water and trapping nutria and feral hogs.
   • Their men set off into the forest to hunt wild hogs.
   • On the greater part of their home places and on the country's abundant common lands, they encouraged hogs and sheep to roam wild in the woods and forage for themselves.
   • The buck and its tall, thick rack had vanished, replaced by a herd of feral hogs that vacuumed the corn.
   • Look out for uniquely carved benches, hogs in the hedges and other woodland animals.
   • Last month California health officials said feral hogs might be to blame for this summer's E. coli bacteria outbreak in spinach that killed three people and sickened 200 others.
   • Feral hogs have become a major problem in much of Texas, and can do considerable damage to wildlife and wildlife habitat.
   • An unmarked young hog born in the woods, however, could be claimed by the first person to find it.
   • In my defense I didn't know wild hogs were nowhere near as tough as a 150 pound man.
   • Here in South Texas there is always the possibility of encountering a 300 lb. feral hog while turkey hunting.
   • Feral hogs are often found in the remote, rugged portions of the state's Ozarks mountain range, where thick brush and timber make it hard to locate and kill the animals.
   • In particular, wild hogs and foxes are damaging the happy wilderness.
   • The pen was necessary to safeguard the feeder and its precious contents from cows and wild hogs.
   • Farther along we saw a feral hog that was foraging within ten feet of the road - and so many armadillos we quit counting.
   • Deer eat acorns like popcorn, as do feral hogs, squirrels and raccoons.
2. 1.2 A wild animal of the pig family, for example a warthog.
   猪科野生动物，例如疣猪
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   • ‘Come piggies,’ he calls to a family of plump Red River hogs.
   • In the wild, the pygmy hog lives in small family groups of about four to five individuals, comprised of one or more adult females and accompanying juveniles, and occasionally an adult male.
   • Researchers in the late 1970s estimated that there were fewer than 150 pygmy hogs living in the wild.
   • He rode a large wild hog into battle usually with two roman candles under his arms, screaming his battle cry ‘Heeey youuu guuuuuys!’
   • At a certain lodge in East Africa for example, a little girl was seen leaning out of a window, trying to touch a giant forest hog, a large wild pig the size of a donkey, with a reputation of ripping hunters and their dogs with fearsome tusks.
   • Animals will charge and attack if they are threatened, and in the case of the forest hogs, they had young ones with them.
3. 1.3informal A greedy person.
   贪婪的人
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   • Our King was, in a simple statement, a greedy, power-hungry covetous hog.
   • Worse, they're also tremendous space hogs, gobbling up dozens of precious square feet in useless aisle area.
   • Corporate data centers are power hogs, and their gluttony gets worse every year.

2trademark in UK, informal A large motorcycle, in particular a Harley Davidson.

3British dialect A young sheep before the first shearing.

1informal with object Keep or use all of (something) for oneself in an unfair or selfish way.

他从不抢风头。

2(with reference to a ship) bend or become bent convex upward along its length as a result either of the hull being supported in the middle and not at the ends (as in a heavy sea) or the vessel's being loaded more heavily at the ends.