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Webster 1913 Edition


Hogger

Hog′ger

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Noun.
A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.

Definition 2024


hogger

hogger

English

Noun

hogger (plural hoggers)

  1. Agent noun of hog; one who, or that which, hogs.
    • 1994, James J Wilhelm, Ezra Pound: The Tragic Years, 1925-1972
      Against these heroes are the puritans, the hoggers of profit, the shysters, the obfuscators, the do-nothings.
  2. A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.
  3. (slang) A marijuana cigarette
  4. (curling) A shot that comes to rest short of or on the far hog line and is removed from play