Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A semiwild hog of the southeast United States, having a narrow body with a ridged back.
- n. See rorqual.
- n. A sharp ridged hill.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A rorqual, finfish, or finner-whale, of the family Balænopteridæ.
- n. A hog whose back has somewhat the form of sharp ridge. This formation, accompanied by long legs, is characteristic of breeds of hogs that have long been allowed to run wild in woods and waste places and feed upon mast, wild fruits, etc. The flesh of such swine, particularly that of the hams, is usually of superior quality for the table.
Wiktionary
- n. US A term used in the southeastern US for a thin feral pig. The term is borderline slang but is used as the nickname for the University of Arkansas athletic teams.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The rorqual.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States
- n. any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin
- adj. having a sharp narrow back
Examples
“The scrub and "razorback" hogs are very unprofitable, and require an undue amount of food to produce a pound of gain.”
“razorback" was regaling two of the workmen with words of experience if not wisdom.”
“Teeny" and "Tiny" are the names of a two-headed razorback musk turtle from California that's about the size of a nickel.”
The Huffington Post: Two-Snouted Cyclops Pig Born In China (PHOTO)
“There are plenty of razorback hogs, Armadillos and skunks.”
“Bill has already disgraced this nation and now he is showing how forciful he can be engaging in the politics of personal destruction while squealing like a razorback over the 'boys ganging up on Hillary”
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Clyburn May Drop Neutral Stance To Punish Clintons
“Threatened fish include humpback chub Gila cypha (E) and razorback sucker Xyrauchen texanus (E).”
“Instead of owning dogs, some people have crazy pets - like ostriches, razorback boars, and as we see here, Rusty the Rhino.”
“These include the bonytail chub, humpback chub, Sonora chub, Chihuahua chub, beautiful shiner, Pecos bluntnose shiner, razorback sucker, Colorado squawfish, Pyramid Lake cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout.”
“Thanks for your wishes for the race - I wore a razorback top not PVC, becuase while I don't sweat, I do need to keep cool so lots of venting is important.”
Wheelchair Girl goes kink & kinky: naughty schoolgirl & PVC (Devotees ahoy!)
“So, he bought four rides -- a Jetson car, a Flintstones car, a Batmobile and a tusked razorback -- from Kiddie Rides.”
The Wall Street Journal: Nostalgia Helps Put Old Kiddie Rides Back in Play
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘razorback’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Weaponized animals
cut-throat finch, jack-knifefish, spear-winged fly, ghost knifefish, riflebird, bombardier beetle, daggernose shark, dagger nematode, daggertooth pike ..., swordfish, bomb fly, hammer-headed bat and 104 more...
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whales,dolphins,porpoises
amazing water creatures
cetacean, balleen whale, northern right whale, bowhead whale, gray whale, fin whale, sei whale, minke whale, humpback whale, blue whale, pygmy Bryde's whale, toothed whales and 111 more...
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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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snarkout's Words
agenbite, scandent, vulpine, ratel, corvid, magpie, meline, musteline, ecdysiast, waxwing, abecedarian, guillotine and 111 more...
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Pigs on Parade
pig-words: including, but not limited to, famous pigs in film and fiction, historical pigs of note, pig breeds, and assorted porcine terms
babe, the empress of bl..., freddy the pig, piglet, miss piggy, old major, snowball, napoleon, squealer, wilbur, porky pig, petunia pig and 89 more...
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Front and Back
backchat, backbone, backpack, backhoe, backfire, backhanded, breakfront, beachfront, drawback, effrontery, frontier, switchback and 196 more...
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The Hills Are Alive
Hill words. Also see over hill.
hill, hillock, tor, golgotha, butte, morro, brae, formicary, drumlin, sowback, barrow, foothill and 41 more...
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Cetaceans
grampus, whale, porpoise, dolphin, cachalot, minke, narwhal, rorqual, orca, humpback, beluga, kogia and 49 more...
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