;any stout, cloven-hoofed artiodactyl of the Old World family Suidae, having a thick hide sparsely covered with coarse hair, a disklike snout, and an often short, tasseled tail: now of worldwide distribution and hunted or raised for its meat and other products. Compare hog, pig, wild boar.

;the domestic hog, Sus scrofa.

;a coarse, gross, or brutishly sensual person.

;a contemptible person.