verb
- eating greedily or excessively; consuming food in large quantities without restraint
- living or behaving in a dirty, messy, or slovenly manner
Usage: informal; often used with 'out'
Usage: informal; often used with 'out'
noun
- the act or practice of eating greedily or living messily
- a pipeline cleaning device that travels through a pipe to remove deposits
Usage: informal
Usage: technical; petroleum industry
Examples
- We were pigging out on pizza and ice cream all night.
- After the party, the living room looked like they'd been pigging out for days.
- He's been pigging on junk food since he got home from school.
- The pigging operation cleaned the pipeline of accumulated residue.
- They spent the weekend pigging out and watching movies.
- The maintenance crew used pigging to maintain the oil pipeline.
- Stop pigging out and save some dessert for everyone else.