Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

high off the hog

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English

Syllables: high- of-f the hog
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Alternative form of high on the hog.

Example Sentences

"You are talking about the all income, so you are talking about a very sizable tax increase for a mall segment of our economy, I admit, but they are not exactly people who are eating highest off the hog at this point in our economy."
"After paying off my debts, I started living a little higher off the hog, ordering the best bourbon at Marco's, dressing better, playing the lottery, and rejoining the poker game, where my luck was, as usual, lousy."
"It must be said that the Jap guards didn't live high off the hog either."

Inflected Forms

higher off the hog (comparative) highest off the hog (superlative)

Questions

What does high off the hog mean?: Alternative form of high on the hog.

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