pig

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pig
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Meanings
noun
  • an omnivorous domesticated hoofed mammal with sparse bristly hair and a flat snout for rooting in the soil, kept for its meat.
  • a greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person.
    E.g. I bet he's scoffed them all, greedy pig
  • a police officer.
    E.g. were the pigs there when the windows were smashed or not?
  • an oblong mass of iron or lead from a smelting furnace.
  • a device which fits snugly inside an oil or gas pipeline and is sent through it to clean or test the inside, or to act as a barrier.
verb
  • gorge oneself with food.
    E.g. he'd pigged himself on the last of the food
  • (of a sow) give birth to piglets; farrow.
  • operate a pig within an oil or gas pipeline.
    E.g. they will carry out all trenching and pigging

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