hogging
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
hogging
- present participle of hog
Noun
hogging (uncountable)
- (slang) The targeting by men of overweight or obese women for sexual encounters, not due to sexual attraction but for amusement, or to take advantage of low self-esteem.
- 2009, Esther D. Rothblum, Sondra Solovay, The fat studies reader (page 158)
- […] hogging is used as a tool whereby men create and maintain masculinity.
- 2009, Esther D. Rothblum, Sondra Solovay, The fat studies reader (page 158)
- Taking up too much of something so others cannot use it.
- 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- There’s so much Trump in Joe: the overbearing and vainglorious rhetoric, the hogging of all natural resources, the willingness to treat people like property, the disappointing offspring.
Adjective
hogging (not comparable)