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  • adjective Attributive form of wild boar, noun.

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Examples

  • They couldn't see or hear her from inside and besides, if she had one hope it was that her mother would kick Ray Adams out for the evening and get it on wild-boar style with Bible boy so Johnella'd have something salacious to talk about at church or in coming weeks.

    Good Country. People. Heather Fowler 2011

  • FORST, Germany — Returning home from a midnight wild-boar hunt near his village along the Polish frontier in July, German farmer Matthias Rattei met an unexpected group of visitors: thieves trying to steal a € 250,000 harvester and two tractors.

    Stealing Across the Border 2010

  • Cuevas came out to introduce the third course: a wild-boar roast with a rub of brown sugar, black pepper, red pepper and coriander and a red-wine reduction sauce made with carrots and a pound of foie gras that just kind of melted and disintegrated into it.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • The wineries of Mendocino County's Yorkville Highlands AVA host an annual festival with a grape stomp, live music, dancing, crafts, games and a meal (roasted pig, wild-boar sausage and lamb).

    Regional Tastes and Treats 2009

  • Cuevas came out to introduce the third course: a wild-boar roast with a rub of brown sugar, black pepper, red pepper and coriander and a red-wine reduction sauce made with carrots and a pound of foie gras that just kind of melted and disintegrated into it.

    The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009

  • Eat authentic — and adventurous — Polish cuisine like wild-boar pâté in currant sauce, Silesian blood pudding roasted in an apple and crayfish in dill cream at the Wroclawska Inn (restauracjekrawczyk. com.pl).

    Wroclaw, Poland 2008

  • A photo accompanying an article on a wild-boar hunt in Friday's Weekend Journal shows a man holding a pump shotgun.

    Corrections & Amplifications 2008

  • The most popular products are olive oil, wine and confections like truffle paste or wild-boar sausage, much of which is sold to guests.

    Now That's Italian! 2007

  • And Cyrus was ever in the front, like a young hound, untrained as yet but bred from a gallant stock, charging a wild-boar recklessly; forward he swept, without eyes or thought for anything but the quarry to be captured and the blow to be struck.

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • But in the middle of it all he heard the view-halloo again: he sprang to his horse as though frenzied — a wild-boar was charging down on them, and he charged to meet it, and drawing his bow with the surest aim possible, struck the beast in the forehead, and laid him low.

    Cyropaedia 2007

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