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'''Hog''' may refer to: |
'''Hog''' may refer to: |
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==Animal== |
==Animal== |
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*Any [[Domestic pig]], known to experts as ''Sus scrofa domestica'' or ''Sus domestica'' |
*Any [[Domestic pig]], known to experts as ''Sus scrofa domestica'' or ''Sus domestica'' |
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**Any individual of the species ''[[Sus scrofa]]'', either wild or domestic |
**Any individual of the species ''[[Sus scrofa]]'', either wild or domestic |
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***Any species in the [[Sus (genus)|''Sus'' (genus)]], of domestic, wild, warty, and bearded pigs (hogs) |
***Any species in the [[Sus (genus)|''Sus'' (genus)]], of domestic, wild, warty, and bearded pigs (hogs) |
Revision as of 15:38, 19 April 2011
Look up hog in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hog may refer to:
Animal
- Any Domestic pig, known to experts as Sus scrofa domestica or Sus domestica
- Any individual of the species Sus scrofa, either wild or domestic
- Any species in the Sus (genus), of domestic, wild, warty, and bearded pigs (hogs)
- Any member of the Suidae family of mammals, including Sus and other genea, such as warthogs
- Any species in the Sus (genus), of domestic, wild, warty, and bearded pigs (hogs)
- Any individual of the species Sus scrofa, either wild or domestic
Other
- The Hogs, the famed offensive line of the Washington Redskins of the National Football League
- Arkansas Razorbacks, the college sports teams of the University of Arkansas
- Hogging and sagging, a condition on a ship where the keel is under a bending load, forced upwards amidships and sagging at bow and stern. In wooden ships, this can become a permanent deformation of the keel.
- Hogging (sexual practice), a practice among certain men that entails seeking out obese women for sexual encounters
- "Hog" may refer to something, or someone, overutilizing common resources (after the voracious eating habits of hogs):
- Road hog, a driver who tries to occupy multiple lanes, tailgates, cuts off other drivers, and otherwise avoids sharing the road.
- Server hog (computer science), a user, program or system that places excessive load on a server such that its performance is degraded
- Water hog, a machine that removes water from cricket pitches and putting greens
- An informal term for a large motorcycle, usually reserved for machines produced by Harley-Davidson.
Abbreviations
- The stock ticker symbol for Harley-Davidson (HOG)
- Frank País Airport, serving Holguin, Cuba
- Harley Owners Group
- Higher-order grammar, a formal grammar framework
- Histogram of oriented gradients, a feature descriptor used in computer vision
- House of Guitars, a famous guitar store in Rochester, New York
- Hidden object game