pig

The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.

[…]and at the back a rambling courtledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and bare-foot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.

1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 113:

Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus or the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.

Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.

2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, →ISBN, page I-9:

(specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).

Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.

"Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit. My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."

2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose, →ISBN, page 196:

(uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.

The edible meat of such an animal; pork.

pig:

So far on the streets there's been a lot of metallic pink (the kind of pink as in the shade of pig you get, and this is exactly the shade of the diary I've been writing in) […]

(uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).

You gluttonous pig! Now that you've eaten all the cupcakes, there will be none for the party!

When you figure out the maze and get to the middle, that's when you get your free cocoa. It's on a table in two big thermos jugs, and there's cups and a ladle, and the sign says, "One cup per customer, PLEASE!" because some people are pigs.

2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.4, at p.86

(figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.

She considered him a pig, as he invariably stared at her bosom when they talked.

(figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.

He was a pig and his apartment a pigpen; take-away containers and pizza boxes in a long, moldy stream lined his counter tops.

(figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.

(figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.

The protester shouted, “Don't give in to the pigs!” as he was arrested.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay

1971, Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics and music), “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”:

“...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs?”
He meant police.

1989, Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort, page 359:

The bank robberies went on and each raid became more bloody, Meinhof encouraging her followers to “kill the pigs” offering the slightest resistance, referring to policemen.

1990, Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C, page 198:

Backing 300 of the more aggressive protesters was a supporting cast of several thousand more who stared down the small line of police. Those in front resumed their taunts of “Pig, pig, fascist pig,” and “pigs eat shit, pigs eat shit.” The rest of the crowd, however, backed off and sat down on the grass when reinforcements arrived. Police did not retaliate for the name-calling, and within minutes the line of demonstrators broke apart and the incident was over without violence.¹¹³

2008, Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, page 63:

But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs. That′s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.

2011, T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge, unnumbered page:

Got a mind for the undies
I'm tryna stay far from the pigs

2017, “All This”, performed by Mayhem (Uptop):

(now chiefly US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, offensive, slang) A police officer.

Hrm... this one's a real pig: I've been banging my head against the wall over it for hours!

Chewing-gum is a pig to get out of your hair.

The conveyor carried the pigs from the smelter to the freight cars.

Standing near the side, he had observed Rex and Fair bring up a great pig of iron, erst used as part of the ballast of the brig, and poise it on the rail.

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 138:

(countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).

The pig was cracked, and molten metal was oozing from the side.

The mold in which a block of metal is cast.

Taylor also bought a pig—a radiation-shielding container made of thick lead—to stash the most radioactive materials in.

2015, Tom Clynes, The Boy Who Played with Fusion, page 36:

Forceps and a lead container (called a pig) that are routinely placed in the room are used to retrieve and contain the source.

2015, Adrianne Dill Linton, Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, page 394:

A lead container used for radioactive waste.

Unfortunately, the pig sent to clear the obstruction got lodged in a tight bend, adding to the problem.

(engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.

Unfortunately, the M60 is about twenty-four pounds and is very unbalanced. You try carrying the pig around the jungle and see how you feel.

(US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.

(uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.

(US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

en-noun

pig (countable and uncountable, plural pigs)

even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while

Torres Strait Creole: pig

Tok Pisin: pik

→ Abenaki: piks (from "pigs")

→ Malecite-Passamaquoddy: piks (from "pigs")

cuto (Northern Spain - specifically Aragon, La Rioja and Navarra)

警犬 (ging² hyun², literally “police dog”)

porsas

device to clean or inspect a pipe from inside

Pronunciation example of the word Pig in British English.ogg

From Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”) (originally a term for a young pig, with adult pigs being swyn), apparently from Old English *picga (attested only in compounds, such as picgbrēad (“mast, pig-fodder”)), from Proto-West Germanic *piggō, *puggō (“piglet”). Compare Middle Dutch pogge, puggen, pigge, pegsken (“pigling”), Middle Low German pugge, pûke (“piglet”). Pokorny suggests this root might be somehow related to *bū-, *bew- (“to blow; swell”), which could account for the alternation between "pig" and "big".
A connection to early modern Dutch bigge (contemporary big (“piglet”)), West Frisian bigge (“pigling”), and similar terms in Middle Low German is sometimes proposed, "but the phonology is difficult". Some sources say the words are "almost certainly not" related, others consider a relation "probable, but not certain".
The slang sense of "police officer" is attested since at least 1785.


pig

The black sow pigged at seven this morning.

They were pigging on the free food at the bar.

"Wow, Doc. That's heavy." Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.

2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 349:

(intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).

(intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

(intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.

(transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).

en-verb

pig (third-person singular simple present pigs, present participle pigging, simple past and past participle pigged)

pigs (present singular third-person)
pigging (participle present)
pigged (participle past)
pigged (past)


pig

(Scotland) earthenware, or an earthenware shard

An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer

Unknown. Perhaps from Middle English pig (“a container for wine; the hide of a pig used as a wineskin”), from pigge (“pig”).