Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal So wildly excited as to be irrational or devoid of good judgment: hog-wild spending.
- adj. Informal Wildly enthusiastic: is hog-wild over racing cars.
Wiktionary
- adj. enthusiastic or excited to a foolish or irrational extent.
Examples
“Thieves are going hog-wild along the border of Iowa and Minnesota.”
The Wall Street Journal: Year's Swelling Hog Prices Drive Porcine Crime Wave
“We let the kids go hog-wild on candy on Halloween.”
“Please go hog-wild in the comments with your NY bookstore love.”
“The UGB creates a land premium which has made housing here more expensive than it normally would be which is bad, but this time it did us a favor by making it harder for dumb developers to go hog-wild.”
“The birds in Carolina Herrera's prints were vivid red, while emerging designer Joseph Altuzarra went hog-wild with tropical floral prints.”
“The cablenewsers seem to be going hog-wild on Blago in a weird way, and it comes across almost like a rebound reaction to the end of an eight-year abusive relationship.”
“When people have been subjected to years of oppression, it's hard for them not to go hog-wild when they first taste freedom.”
The Huffington Post: Joseph Smigelski: Film Review: Sons of Perdition
“Catholic theologians go hog-wild as they parse, scrutinize and unravel Judaic elements in Catholic texts and practice.”
“Many folks, during the first few years living in Mexico, go hog-wild over cooking Mexican food, boasting how their diets have improved with rations of fresh produce and pan dulce, and, somewhat ironically, spending the rest of their time on a mad quest for ingredients not commonly available in these parts.”
“And they went hog-wild in responding to the alleged smear.”
Pigs And Lipstick? The Campaign Gets Really Weird | Disinformation
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Fun Phrases & Idioms
dust up, wreak havoc, the willies, cash cow, average joe, drama queen, fancy pants, houston we have a..., in your face, just deserts, kangaroo court, quality time and 78 more...
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