"cold pig" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cold pigs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cold pig (plural cold pigs)
  1. (slang, dated) The act of throwing cold water over a sleeping individual to wake them. Tags: dated, slang
    Sense id: en-cold_pig-en-noun-XbshnRKm

Verb

Forms: cold pigs [present, singular, third-person], cold pigging [participle, present], cold pigged [participle, past], cold pigged [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} cold pig (third-person singular simple present cold pigs, present participle cold pigging, simple past and past participle cold pigged)
  1. (transitive, slang, dated) To throw cold water all over a sleeping individual's bed and body to wake them. Tags: dated, slang, transitive Categories (topical): Sleep
    Sense id: en-cold_pig-en-verb-Qo7rGsgS Disambiguation of Sleep: 26 74 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 10 90

Inflected forms

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