Use the word "hog" as a noun or as a verb. As you can see from the picture above, this is what a hog looks like. It’s almost the same thing as a pig, but hogs are generally bigger.
These sentences use "hog" as a noun:
Tim’s car is a real gas hog. It only gets ten miles per gallon. (It consumes too much gas.)
Don’t be such a hog. Share some of that with me.
This computer game is a memory hog. (It uses a lot of memory.)
Randy rides a hog to work in the morning. (The word "hog" is an affectionate name for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.)
When "hog" is used as a verb, it usually means that something or someone takes up a lot of space or consumes a lot of material or food:
This program is hogging a lot of memory on my computer.
That big car ahead of us is hogging the road.
Don’t hog all the pizza. Save some for the others.
I don’t want to hog all your time, but I have another question.
Quit hogging the computer and let other people sit down to use it.
