to pig
- verb
- /pɪg/
- Informal
- If pressured by a friend to "pig out" (after eating healthy for an entire week), 7% of women would totally give in, 46% would only share some of their friend's junk food, and 47% would stay disciplined and eat healthy.
- go home and pig
- just want to pig
Examples
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Just remember to eat a sensible lunch, and don't "pig out" before the big meal either.
Blog text (20) -
Marty, I'm sorry I'm late, but it was all-you-could-eat night down at the Pit, and I couldn't resist the opportunity to pig out.
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And everybody can just really pig out.
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- Yeah, let's go pig out, like, now.
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When faced with stress, some people pig out and others just stop.
Blog text (31) -
Nine months of the year I'd stay indoors and pig out.
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No need for us to pig out on dry rations and recycled water.
Fiction book (2001) -
After touring their facility, I sat down in one of their comfy chairs to pig out on the matches that just kept on coming.
Blog text (11) -
I don't pig out and I don't starve myself.
Blog text (24) -
We can pig out on snacks while watching the movie.
Synonyms
To eat food quickly because you are very hungry
To eat a very large amount of food greedily
Eat a very large amount of food without control
To eat in a very messy and greedy way
To take more than your fair share of food or things
To eat a very large amount of food
To eat or drink too much
To behave in a greedy and messy way, often when eating with others
To eat too much food quickly and greedily
To eat too much food in a greedy way
To eat too much in a greedy way
To eat food quickly and greedily
Eating a lot and not leaving enough for others
To eat something quickly and greedily
To eat very quickly and without caring about manners
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
To behave in a greedy and messy way, often when eating with others
- Informal
To make small changes to something bad so it looks better without fixing the real problem
- Informal
To buy something without checking it first and risk being cheated
Phrasal Verbs
- Offensive
To live in a very dirty and untidy way in your home without caring about cleaning
Compounds
A very young pig that still drinks its mother's milk, often cooked whole for roasting
- Specialized
People pour hot iron from a furnace into bars to be made into steel later
- Specialized
A small bush with narrow leaves and red flowers that is poisonous to young farm animals
- Specialized
A deep-sea animal that looks like a fat sea cucumber and crawls on the ocean floor
How Greedy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pig as a verb meaning to eat in a greedy way comes from comparing a person to the animal, so to pig is to eat a lot like a pig at a trough.