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  • noun Plural form of warthog.

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Examples

  • The unfenced nine-hole course at Skukuza sits smack in the middle of the 7,300-square-mile Kruger National Park, home to the Big Five (lions, elephants, leopards, rhinoceroses and Cape buffaloes) plus innumerable other alarming creatures, such as warthogs and poisonous puff adders.

    Golf in the (Wild) Kingdom 2010

  • Amongst the rich vegetation of the Pozo there is a diversity of local fauna such as warthogs, badgers, deer and thousands of birds.

    Biosphera de Manantlan 2006

  • Amongst the rich vegetation of the Pozo there is a diversity of local fauna such as warthogs, badgers, deer and thousands of birds.

    Biosphera de Manantlan 2006

  • Amongst the rich vegetation of the Pozo there is a diversity of local fauna such as warthogs, badgers, deer and thousands of birds.

    Biosphera de Manantlan 2006

  • This machinima video of fun physics experiments in Halo is hilarious -- players stash huge caches of grenades under gigantic jeeps called "warthogs" and then shoot them from a distance, causing the warthogs to go sailing hundreds of meters into the sky.

    Boing Boing: October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Africa are, with this bright exception, anything but handsome, either in shape or colour; and the large excrescences on their cheeks and face give the "warthogs" a ferocious look, which corresponds with their habits.

    Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848

  • Rabbits die, ballerinas fall, fungus is a form of rot sometimes, earth festers, someone shoots monsters, warthogs gore and eyes rot.

    Writing: Unfathomable Poetry « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • I could not get the toaster working warthogs gore to maim

    Writing: Unfathomable Poetry « Colleen Anderson 2010

  • One painting "Same-Different" shows vacationing warthogs preparing to board a train and mice bidding each other farewell.

    Homage to a Visionary Matriarch Meghan Cox Gurdon 2012

  • As the song resumes, the monkeys sing that they like to play and the horses sing that they like fresh hay—until the song veers off course with warthogs chorusing that they "like to blow enormous bubbles" and the shrimp warbling that they like to ski.

    Turn, Turn, Turn Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

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