Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stocking without a foot, worn by coal-miners when at work. See sinker.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Agent noun of hog; one who, or that which, hogs.
  • noun A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.
  • noun slang A marijuana cigarette
  • noun curling A shot that comes to rest short of or on the far hog line and is removed from play

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Examples

  • Together they turned out a ragtime ballad about Casey, set him up as the main 'hogger' on a Western railroad line, and published the song themselves in the Southern California Music Company.

    The Annotated "Casey Jones" Robert Hunter 2005

  • Dubbed the 'eetmeet plate,' assuming that majority of the people aren't aware of how fast they eat, it transforms the 'hogger' in you into a conscious eater.

    Coolbuzz 2009

  • If you're out with the boys and considering a game of hogger, then 'Flame' may be just the ticket!

    Scent of Love Dave Hurteau 2008

  • I never, ever, fill out those dumb question forms from Facebook, or any other data hogger trying to get his hands on “my social graph”.

    Relationships are complicated | FactoryCity 2008

  • My brother-in-law (the jerky hogger) will be so happy

    South Beach and beef jerky | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

  • Besides, the shortage of housing is so chronic that there are actually very few tenants who match the image of the undeserving house-hogger.

    Tinkering with tenancy is no solution to the housing shortage 2010

  • And through it all our chameleon-like heroine, spotlight-hogger though she is, remains strangely unilluminated.

    Asia's Best Books 2009

  • I'm quite happy for faster folk queued behind me to zip past, I'm not a lane-hogger and there should be plenty of room for that.

    The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Shoals of Idiocy BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • While attacking Gerson for being a credit-hogger and a bad friend, Scully never questions whether in fact one wants credit for writing words whose very purpose is to be used under false pretexts by another.

    Mark Oppenheimer: The Matthew Scully Debate Misses the Point: Bush has Never Given a Good Speech 2008

  • Well, give it what name you like, call it as I do here "The Modern Attack," or as I think men will soon have to call it, "Anti-Christ," or call it by the temporary borrowed term of "Bolshevism" which is only the Russian for "whole hogger", we know the well enough.

    Belloc Speaks - The Modern Phase 2007

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