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pig noun- a police officer; in the plural it may mean a number of police personnel or the police in general UK, 1811
- I don’t know Rubin but I do know narcs and I can’t stand them, the ugly Facist brute pigs. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 94, 1968
- [I]n front of the Hilton, were the police–or “the Pigs” as they were now known by all. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, pp. 127–8, November 1968
- LETTVIN: Why do you insist on calling policemen pigs? ABBIE: Cause on TV we can’t call them cocksuckers. — Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, p. 12, 1969
- The Pigs, hogs and the boars of the racist power structure–the Pigs of the police department and the hand tool Pork Chop Nationalists are showing the “essence of swine” within their degenerate souls. — The Black Panter, p. 1, 25 January 1969
- Inside the police car was Jack Weinberg, a prisoner of the pigs. But we surrounded the pigs, and they were our prisoners. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 21, 1970
- Some were reluctant at first to call cops “pigs.” “Pig” was a Berkeley-San Francisco thing, inspired by the Black Panthers... But we took one look at Czechago’s big blue-and-white porkers: “Man, those fat fuckers really do look like pigs.” — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 170, 1970
- Law-abiding citizens deplore the senseless cry of “Pigs.” — Richard Allen (James Moffat), Author’s Notes [britpulp], p. 57, 1970
- “ So the pigs are driven to desperate acts, like the murder of our deputy chairman, Fred Hampton.” (Quoting Don Cox). — Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, p. 23, 1970
- In 1958 I escaped from Kern County Jail and fought the pigs, all the way back to the midwestern area of my birth[.] — George Jackson, Soledad Brother, p. 41, 1970
- I’ll even kiss a Sunset pig / California I’m coming home. — Joni Mitchell, California, 1971
- A lot of the fay chicks would go for his revolutionary bullshit, and if that was the program, I’d come on with “Right on” and “Off the pig” good as Reggie. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 81, 1975
- “ Inspector Regan,” Jack said, playing it by ear. “We’re not mucking about, pig,” a third spokesman called. — The Sweeney, p. 13, 1976
- They [the police] march, clearing the street. A throng of gays flanks them. “Pigs, pigs! Fucking pigs! Pigs! Shit pigs! Pigs, pigs, pigs, pigs!” — John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, p. 181, 1977
- Today’s pig is tomorrow’s bacon! — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 341, 1977
- A pig was downed, another wounded with numerous shots. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 225, 1978
- I know what you’re doing, Campbell; bacon; pig; oink oink; police officers. I used to say that to cops when I was your age. — Wayne’s World, 1992
- Darryl and Lathrop got jailed for hitting a pig. — Forrest Gump, 1992
- a male chauvinist US
- Show the world exactly what a pig Clarence Thomas is. — Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon, p. 264, 1992
- VERONICA: You’ve slept with twelve different girls? DANTE: Including you, yes. DANTE: What the hell was that for? VERONICA: You’re a pig. — Clerks, 1994
- a person who has a large or indiscriminate appetite UK, 1546
A shortened form of “greedy pig”. - I’m not saying she was a pig but I was talking to her brother Perky and he said she’d bounced more balls off her forehead than Kenny Dalgleish[.] — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 237, 1999
- a chorus dancer US
- And “pigs” is the backstage slang for chorines. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 159, 1948
- a promiscuous woman US
- — American Speech, p. 302, December 1955: “Wayne University Slang”
- Let’s shoot through [go] and point percy [the penis] at a few Parisian pigs. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- The rest of us are happy enough going down Rocket’s to pull a pig, happy to fuck some old boiler in the car park[.] — John King, Human Punk, p. 232, 2000
- an unattractive female UK: SCOTLAND
- Hey Sammy, that wis a pur pig ye were winchin the other night. — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, p. 54, 1988
- a prostitute CANADA
- — Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey, 1960
- an inferior or bad example of anything UK, 1925
From an earlier sense as “an unpleasant person”. - - Pig of a fuckin day, Ianto, eh?–Yeh.–Hate this fuckin weather. — Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, p. 34, 2001
- a “Humber” one-ton 4x4 armoured personnel carrier UK, 1974
Nicknamed by troops serving in Northern Ireland during the 1970s; taken out of service in the early 1990s. - Leaving the Belfast supermarket, an armored carrier they called “pigs” drove by like a sightless dinosaur[.] — John Brady, Stone of the Heart, p. 104, 1990
- an M-60 machine gun US, 1974
Each squad in Vietnam was assigned an M-60, the army’s general-purpose machine gun which entered the service in the 1950s. It was designed to be lightweight (23 pounds) and easy to carry. It produced a low “grunting” sound and thus the porcine allusions. - I sat with my back to the wire, my feet in the ditch, under the tight heaviness of the flak jacket and belted ammo, worn criss-cross fashion, looking down at the M-60–the “pig,” they called it. — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 47, 1977
- Lighter, at fifteen pounds, than the old M-60 (that weighed twenty-three pounds dry and was sometimes called “The Pig"), which keeps the gunner feeling cheerful and refreshed after a hard day on the assault. — Hans Halberstadt, Airborne, p. 104, 1988
- Sugaar told me I would be carrying a “pig” (M-60) on the mission. — Gary Linderer, The Eyes of the Eagle, p. 74, 1991
- in circus usage, an elephant, male or female UK, 1934
- [E]lephants are called “bulls” or “pigs". — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 32, 1953
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 36, 1981
- in a split-pot game of poker, a player who declares both high and low US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 67, 1988
- a racehorse that is not likely to win US
- The horse he had was a stiff, a real pig from Canada. — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 154, 1973
▷ see:PIGINTHEMIDDLE ▶ in pig pregnant UK, 1945- It’s happened at last, I’m in pig. — Henry Sloane, Sloane’s Inside Guide to Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll, p. 73, 1985
▶ kill your pig to spoil your chances of doing something UK: NORTHERN IRELAND- — C. I. Macafee, A Concise Ulster Dictionary, p. 193, 1996
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