hog, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hog v.

1. to attack, lit. or fig.

(a) to have sexual intercourse [the puritan image of ‘swinishness’ allied to sex].

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 558/2: C.19–20.

(b) (US prison, also sell a hog) to subject to assault, esp. homosexual rape.

1962–68		in B. Jackson In the Life (1972) 419: ‘Him and this other boy hogged this Mexican that wasn’t a punk.’...‘What happened to the guy that got hogged?’.
1969		B. Jackson Thief’s Primer 40: The guy who’s hogged, he’s just a laughingstock after that. The ones that fuck him, they always say he wasn’t no good anyway. [Ibid.] 175: There’s a lot of them that are hogged. They grab them and throw them down and either threaten or put a knife on them. Hogged – same as bullied.
1971–2		C. Shafer ‘Catheads [...] and Cho-Cho Sticks’ in Abernethy Bounty of Texas (1990) 206: hog, v. – to take something from someone by force. [Ibid.] 213: sell a hog, n. – to try to scare or bluff someone else.

2. (US, also hawg) to defraud, to cheat, to rob.

1859		Matsell Vocabulum 42: hogging To humbug.
1865		‘Artemus Ward’ Among the Mormons in Complete Works (1922) 276: My father understood this. ‘Go,’ he sed — ‘go, my son, and hog the public!’ (he ment, ‘knock em,’ but the old man was allus a little given to slang).
2000		Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Hawged: To have everything taken away. As in, ‘He hawged you for all your money.’ (TX).
2005		J.E. Lawson Last Burn in Hell 24: These women took something from society; or as prisoners say, they hawged it.

3. (orig. US) to grab for oneself, to act greedily or selfishly.

1869		A.K. McClure Three Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains 246: A few parties ‘hogged up’ the whole of the pay-claims .
1884		(con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 233: So, says I, s’pose somebody has hogged that bag on the sly?
1896		Columbus (OH) Dispatch 2 July n.p.: It would give them a chance to say I was hogging every-thing and giving no one else a chance.
1908		H. Green Maison De Shine 241: He’s all the time hoggin’ the centre.
1915		E. Pound letter 17 May in Paige (1971) 60: He is a rich man who does nothing – god damn nothing – for the arts, recognizes no obligation, and on top of it tries to ‘earn a living’, which meant he hogs a minor job which would be a living to some other man.
1922		E. Raymond Tell England (1965) 244: Oh, rot, you scrimshanker. You’ve been hogging it all the afternoon.
1936		J.T. Farrell World I Never Made 498: Don’t hog a box of candy any more.
1949		(con. 1943–5) A. Murphy To Hell and Back (1950) 183: That Murph is trying to hog all the glory.
1959		C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 158: He hogged the camera — in fact, the dam thing had to keep chasing him about the studio.
1960		C. Cooper Jr Scene (1996) 243: I know the Feds are doing an ass-tight job [...] but what I can’t stand is them hogging the credit!
1967		C.P. Taylor Happy Days Are Here Again (1968) 177: Don’t be so greedy, Waxman! Don’t hog all the guilt for yourself!
1974		D. Goines Swamp Man 92: He couldn’t stand the sight of his brother hogging all the whisky.
1987		B. Chatwin Songlines 76: They did not slow down but came up [...] hogging the middle of the road.
1999		N. Cohn Yes We have No 223: Killer had this big stash of rocks, and he kept hogging it.
2000		Observer Screen 6 Feb. 7: Julie hogs the movie as Kaysen’s best friend.
2014		Great Falls Trib. (MT) 11 Oct. 51/4: ‘We cannot let them hog the ball,’ said [the] state coach.
2020		G. Armstrong Young Team 4: We’re aw watchin fur him hoggin the joint, but he passes it over.

4. to act in a lazy manner.

1912

P.C. Wren Dew & Mildew 397: The rest of the time he spent loafing in the club or ‘hogging’ in his bungalow.

5. (Aus.) to be very keen.

1933

C. Drew ‘Gorilla Grogan’ in Bulletin (Sydney) 26 July 40/2: ‘This race crowd here [...] is just hoggin’ to see a scrap of some sort’.

In phrases

hog at (v.) (also hog up)(W.I.)

1. to speak roughly to, to humiliate verbally.

1996

Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.

2. to eat ravenously.

1996

Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.

hog for (v.)

(Aus.) to desire intensely.

1914		Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Aug. 32/4: The ole feller looked at the bar kinder lingerin’, an’ wiped his lips with his tongue, so I knoo he was hoggin’ for a pot same as me an’ Scotty are now, but he went back.
1918		Kia Ora Coo-ee 15 Aug. 4/1: Though you’ve lost your pipe and bacca, and you’re hogging for a smoke: / Look upon the shiny side and treat the matter as a joke.

hog it (v.)

to sleep deeply, esp. when accompanied by heavy snoring.

1945

D. Bolster Roll On My Twelve 96: Come on, you lazy swabs [...] You’ve been hogging it all day.

hog them (v.)

(US) to attract a large, enthusiastic audience.

1883

Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 22 Dec. 3/1: General Paresis Davis is ‘hogging ’em’ with Alvyn Joslyn and his brass band.