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- noun Alternative spelling of
road hog .
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Examples
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"You needn't be a road-hog because you're a Rube," said the chauffeur.
CHAPTER X 2010
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Afterwards, waving smiley good-byes as the screen door slammed inside the last manure-footed fly of the season, we would pretend this was the most enjoyable and relaxing sojourn ever undertaken by the Midwest kinfolk; who now are worn out, corn-fed, under-financed, and facing several hundred miles of back-breaking, exhaust-choking, bug-splattering, road-hog crowded highways returning home.
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Anyone who is about to cite the example of "Here Comes Noddy Again" should first actually read the book and see what a selfish road-hog he was being, and why he had it coming to him.
Insensitive Golliwog Display Horror Laban 2006
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One hopes that practice with the Indian variety may help them in their chase of the Uhlan road-hog.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 Various
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"You needn't be a road-hog because you're a Rube," said the chauffeur.
Chapter 10 1913
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I do not mean that he was a road-hog; far from it.
The Belfry May Sinclair 1904
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Mr. Lloyd George's statement that "The Prussian Junker is the road-hog of modern Europe" has, we hear, had a curious and satisfactory sequel.
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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How the little Canadian army preserved the tradition and barred "the road-hog of Europe" from the channel coast for seventeen months, let history tell, and at what cost let the dead declare who lie in unmarked graves which, following the curving line of trenches from Langemarck through Hooge and Sanctuary
The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land Ralph Connor 1898
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Mr. LLOYD GEORGE'S statement that "The Prussian Junker is the road-hog of modern Europe" has, we hear, had a curious and satisfactory sequel.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 30, 1914 Various 1898
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"So he wor!" said one man, emphatically -- "A right-down reg'lar road-hog!"
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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