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whole hog

[hohl hawg, hog] / ˈhoʊl ˈhɔg, ˈhɒg /
NOUN
fullest extent
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With over $150,000 in prize money to be awarded, 129 cooking teams from 22 states and four foreign countries are competing in one of three main categories of ribs, shoulder and whole hog.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

With three young kids and soaring meat costs, Logan Wagoner decided it was time to go whole hog.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2022

And, if you really want to go the whole hog, you can uninstall it.

From The Verge • Sep. 23, 2021

“Hadrian,” he said in June at a talk in Paris, will go the whole hog: arias, duets, chorus, a ballet.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2018

Let’s go whole hog and say the Southern Pacific will charge three-fifty to carry it.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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