| 词组 | pig |
| 释义 | pig Theme: PEOPLE - FAT n. someone who eats too much; a glutton.Stop being a pig! Save some for other people.I try to cut down on calories, but whenever I see red meat I make a pig of myself. Theme: PEOPLE - NEGATIVE n. a dirty or slovenly person.Max is a pig. I don't think he bathes enough.Jimmy, change your clothes. Look at that mud, you little pig! Theme: PEOPLE - WHITE n. a Caucasian. (Black.)Why do those pigs think they can walk in here like that?Who do those pigs think they are, tourists? Theme: POLICE n. an officer; a police officer or a military officer. (Used mostly for a police officer. Widely known since the 1960s.)The pigs are coming to bust up the fight.The pigs who aren't in pig heaven are driving around in pigmobiles busting innocent people like me. Theme: WOMAN - FAT n. an ugly and fat woman. (Derogatory.)Clare is a pig. Why doesn't she lose a ton or two?Every girl in that sorority is a pig. squealer n. a pig; a piglet.They sent their squealers to market at just the right time.I was horrified to learn that bacon comes from squealers. pig Ⅰ noun 1 a police officer; in the plural it may mean a number of police personnel or the police in general UK, 1811. 2 a male chauvinist US, 1992. 3 a person who has a large or indiscriminate appetite. A shortened form of 'greedy pig' UK, 1546. 4 a chorus dancer US, 1948. 5 a promiscuous woman US, 1955. 6 an unattractive female UK: SCOTLAND, 1988. 7 a prostitute CANADA, 1960. 8 an inferior or bad example of anything. From an earlier sense as 'an unpleasant person' UK, 1925. 9 a 'Humber' one-ton 4x4 armoured personnel carrier. Nicknamed by troops serving in Northern Ireland during the 1970s; taken out of service in the early 1990s UK, 1974. 10 an M-60 machine gun. 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 US, 1974. 11 in circus usage, an elephant, male or female UK, 1934. 12 in a split-pot game of poker, a player who declares both high and low US, 1988⇨ See: PIG IN THE MIDDLE.► in pigpregnant UK, 1945.► kill your pigto spoil your chances of doing something UK: NORTHERN IRELAND, 1996 Ⅱ ⇨ pig in the middle; pig noun urine; an act of urination. Rhyming slang for PIDDLE or WIDDLE UK, 1992 pig out pig out informal to eat a lot of food, especially more than you need or more than is sensible: I find that if I don't eat breakfast, I'm starving by lunchtime and I pig out.+ on It just isn't possible to pig out on a lot of junk food and still stay slim.■ SIMILAR TO: stuff yourself informal pig1. n. someone who eats too much; a glutton. I try to cut down on calories, but whenever I see red meat I make a pig of myself. 2. n. an ugly and fat woman or man. Clare is a pig. Why doesn’t she lose a ton or two? 3. n. a dirty or slovenly person. Jimmy, change your clothes. Look at that mud, you little pig! 4. n. an officer; a police officer or a military officer. (Used mostly for a police officer. Widely known since the 1960s.) The pigs who aren’t in pig heaven are driving around in pigmobiles busting innocent people like me. 5. n. a Caucasian. (Black.) Why do those pigs think they can walk in here like that?
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