Definition of "pig"

[…] and at the back a rambling courtledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and bare-foot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.

1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Salvation Yeo Slew the King of the Gubbings”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., page 113

Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.

2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, page I-9

"Miss Chastene, could you fetch me out an extra plate of pig and biscuit. My partner can't do without your marvelous cooking."

2005, Ross Eddy Osborn, Thorns of a Tainted Rose, page 196

So far on the streets there's been a lot of metallic pink (the kind of pink as in the shade of pig you get, and this is exactly the shade of the diary I've been writing in) […]

2019, Bee Smith, Queen Bee's Party

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay

1971, Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics and music), “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

“...Sounds too easy,” Marvin was saying. “What about the pigs?”He meant police.

1989, Dan Simmons, Carrion Comfort, page 359

The bank robberies went on and each raid became more bloody, Meinhof encouraging her followers to “kill the pigs” offering the slightest resistance, referring to policemen.

1990, Jay Robert Nash, Encyclopedia of World Crime: Volume 1: A-C, page 198

Backing 300 of the more aggressive protesters was a supporting cast of several thousand more who stared down the small line of police. Those in front resumed their taunts of “Pig, pig, fascist pig,” and “pigs eat shit, pigs eat shit.” The rest of the crowd, however, backed off and sat down on the grass when reinforcements arrived. Police did not retaliate for the name-calling, and within minutes the line of demonstrators broke apart and the incident was over without violence.113

2008, Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention, page 63

But me, I joined the party to fight the pigs. That′s why I joined. Because my experience with the police was always negative.

2011, T. J. English, The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge, unnumbered page

Got a mind for the undiesI'm tryna stay far from the pigs

2017, “All This”, performed by Mayhem (Uptop)

Standing near the side, he had observed Rex and Fair bring up a great pig of iron, erst used as part of the ballast of the brig, and poise it on the rail.

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 138

Taylor also bought a pig—a radiation-shielding container made of thick lead—to stash the most radioactive materials in.

2015, Tom Clynes, The Boy Who Played with Fusion, page 36

Forceps and a lead container (called a pig) that are routinely placed in the room are used to retrieve and contain the source.

2015, Adrianne Dill Linton, Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, page 394

"Wow, Doc. That's heavy." Denis sat there pigging on the joint as usual.

2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 349