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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hogtie.

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Examples

  • A Joliet woman accused with three others of the brutal slaying of a Channahon man found "hogtied" with his hands and feet bound has been mailing poems and rap lyrics from behind bars, professing her innocence and complaining about the jail's food and bedding.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • NASA sent 'hogtied' chimps and other primates into space to die there circling in the lonely void.

    Indybay newswire 2009

  • But because the "Munsters" & "McHale's Navy" TV series were still in production at that time, the filmmakers were kind of hogtied, storywise.

    Jim Hill Media 2009

  • Lawsuits related to the arrests have cost taxpayers more than $10 million in settlements of complaints that police officers, without warning, swept up demonstrators, commuters and tourists three blocks from the White House, leaving some hogtied wrist-to-ankle or detained for up to a day.

    D.C. police testify about 2002 World Bank arrests Spencer S. Hsu 2010

  • Lawsuits related to the arrests have cost taxpayers more than $10 million in settlements of complaints that police officers, without warning, swept up demonstrators, commuters and tourists three blocks from the White House, leaving some hogtied wrist-to-ankle or detained for up to a day.

    D.C. police testify about 2002 World Bank arrests Spencer S. Hsu 2010

  • Yes, Ermina was willing to get up close and personal with Richard, but only when he was hogtied, hand and foot.

    Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011

  • Nonfiction historians are hogtied; no amount of speculative verbiage can truly fill an absence of facts.

    Counting On Progress Alan Hirshfeld 2011

  • Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore were found nude, and hogtied, and rumors of Satanism roiled the community in the weeks following their deaths.

    Arkansas judge accepts plea deal, frees West Memphis 3 2011

  • A visit from a disgusting serial killer later, and Alex is hogtied in the back of his truck and Marie is along for the ride.

    TEN of TERROR #6: Haute Tension « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • An Alabama minister who died in June of “accidental mechanical asphyxia” was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, and a head mask, according to an autopsy report.

    Think Progress » Liberty University Withdraws From CPAC Because Of Gay Rights Group’s Co-Sponsorship 2010

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