Usually means: Domesticated animal, often raised for meat.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word pig:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. pig: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pig: Merriam-Webster
  3. pig: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pig: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pig: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pig: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pig, pig: Wordnik
  8. pig: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. PIG, Pig, pig: Wiktionary
  10. pig: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pig: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pig: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pig, pig: Dictionary.com
  14. pig: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pig: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pig (band), Pig (dice), Pig (dice game), Pig (disambiguation), Pig (musical project), Pig (pipeline), Pig (programming language), Pig (programming tool), Pig (short story), Pig (song), Pig (upcoming film), Pig (zodiac), Pig, The Pig (tool): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pig: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pig: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pig: Rhymezone
  20. pig: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pig: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Pig: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Pig: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. pig: FreeDictionary.org
  25. pig: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. pig: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. pig: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pig: Investopedia
  2. pig: Legal dictionary
  3. PIG: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pig: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pig: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. PIG: Acronym Finder
  4. PIG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. pig: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Pig: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. pig, pig, pig, pig: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pig: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Pig: 1960's Slang
  5. The Pig: A Seattle Lexicon
  6. the pig: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pig: Card Games

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PIG: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Any of several mammalian species of the genus Sus or the family Suidae, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus domesticus.
noun:  (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine).
noun:  (uncountable) The edible meat of such an animal; pork.
noun:  (uncountable) A light pinkish-red colour, like that of a pig (also called pig pink).
noun:  (figuratively, derogatory) Someone who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
noun:  (figuratively, derogatory) A lecherous or sexist man.
noun:  (figuratively, derogatory) A dirty or slovenly person.
noun:  (figuratively, derogatory) An obese person.
noun:  (derogatory, slang) A police officer.
noun:  (informal) A difficult problem.
noun:  (countable and uncountable) An oblong block of cast metal (now only iron or lead).
noun:  The mold in which a block of metal is cast.
noun:  A lead container used for radioactive waste.
noun:  (engineering) A device for cleaning or inspecting the inside of an oil or gas pipeline, or for separating different substances within the pipeline. Named for the pig-like squealing noise made by their progress.
noun:  (US, military, slang) The general-purpose M60 machine gun, considered to be heavy and bulky.
noun:  (uncountable) A simple dice game in which players roll the dice as many times as they like, either accumulating a greater score or losing previous points gained.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A sixpence.
noun:  (US, slang) A Cadillac car.
noun:  (US, slang) A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
verb:  (of swine) To give birth.
verb:  (intransitive) To greedily consume (especially food).
verb:  (intransitive) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
verb:  (intransitive) To live together in a crowded filthy manner.
verb:  (transitive, engineering) To clean (a pipeline) using a pig (the device).
noun:  (Scotland) earthenware, or an earthenware shard
noun:  An earthenware hot-water jar to warm a bed; a stone bed warmer
noun:  Persuade, Identify, GOTV, an electoral technique commonly employed in the United Kingdom.
noun:  Police in gear.
noun:  The twelfth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
noun:  Acronym of pipe inspection gauge.
noun:  (medicine, biology) Abbreviation of polyclonal immunoglobulin.

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