Usually means: Buying something sight unseen.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. pig in a poke: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pig in a poke: Merriam-Webster
  3. pig in a poke: Wiktionary
  4. pig in a poke: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. pig in a poke: Dictionary.com
  6. Pig-in-a-poke, Pig in a poke (disambiguation), Pig in a poke: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Pig in a Poke: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. Pig in a Poke: The Word Detective
  9. pig in a poke: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Pig in a poke: World Wide Words
  11. Pig in a poke: Phrase Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pig in a poke: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pig in a poke)

noun:  (idiomatic) Something whose true value is concealed or unknown and may be lower than expected by the buyer or claimed by the seller, especially something offered for sale.

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