"cold pig" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cold pig.wav 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

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cold pig.wav 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: 13 87 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 88

Inflected forms

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