"pig it" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: pigs it [present, singular, third-person], pigging it [participle, present], pigged it [participle, past], pigged it [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pig it (third-person singular simple present pigs it, present participle pigging it, simple past and past participle pigged it)
  1. (intransitive, slang) To live slovenly, in squalor. Tags: intransitive, slang

Inflected forms

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      "form": "pigged it",
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        {
          "ref": "1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5:",
          "text": "\"I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job.\"",
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        "(intransitive, slang) To live slovenly, in squalor."
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