2. (verb)hog to keep or use sth yourself without sharing A huge truck was hogging the road.
Definition of 'hog'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)hog a quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow
2. (noun)hog a mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow
3. (noun)hog a young sheep that has not been shorn
4. (noun)hog a rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water
5. (noun)hog a device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made
6. (verb)hog to cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse
7. (verb)hog to scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom
8. (verb)hog to become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form
Definitions of 'hog'
The New Hacker's Dictionary
1. hog 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat
far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which
noticeably degrade interactive response. Not used of
programs that are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely
painfully slow themselves. More often than not encountered in qualified
forms, e.g., memory hog, core hog, hog the
processor, hog the disk.
“A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the
bus-hog timer expires.”
2. Also said of people who use more than their
fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the
people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many
people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem, they
typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that
they have an important new project to complete.