单词 | road hog |
释义 | road hogSEE SYNONYMS FOR road hog ON THESAURUS.COM nouna driver who obstructs traffic by occupying parts of two lanes. Origin of road hogFirst recorded in 1890–95 OTHER WORDS FROM road hogroad-hoggish, adjectiveroad-hoggism, nounWords nearby road hogroadeo, road-fund licence, road gang, roadguard, road hockey, road hog, roadholding, roadhouse, road hump, roadie, road kill Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for road hog
British Dictionary definitions for road hogroad hog nouninformal a selfish or aggressive driver Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with road hogroad hog A motorist whose vehicle straddles two traffic lanes, as in Stay in your own lane, you road hog! This expression uses hog in the sense of “a greedy or selfish person.” [Colloquial; late 1800s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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