The word 'hogs' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to adult pigs, specifically those that are raised for meat. It can also be used as a slang term for a greedy or selfish person. Example: The farmer raised a herd of hogs for their meat, and he was proud of the large and healthy animals. Example: The CEO was known as a hog in the business world, always taking the biggest share of profits for himself.
It is a measure of how completely Abramović hogs the idea of performance art in the popular imagination that when Chris Burden, an American artist who similarly pioneered martyr-like, life-threatening performance – he got himself shot in the arm and crucified on a Volkswagen – died recently there was little fuss, at least on this side of the Atlantic.
6/10 Brewed by the Hogs Back brewery in Surrey, this new M&S beer cannot trump its Scottish lager (see above), but it is creditable in its own right.
A law in Louisiana specifically allows private-property owners to hunt "outlaw quadrupeds", such as coyotes, hogs and armadillos, at night.
SHE rides a Harley Davidson, carries a gun in her handbag and grew up castrating hogs on the family farm.
A flatbed truck carried reporters like hogs in a pen.
Boys played cricket on rooftops; old men played draughts or chess; hogs enjoyed an uninterrupted nose through the rubbish.
If the restrictions are not loosened, they can no longer be justified as a reasonable tax on bandwidth hogs who make online life slow and miserable for more restrained types.
They cannot ride the subway to work, or haul their hogs by bicycle.
Boys played cricket on the rooftops; older men played draughts; hogs enjoyed an uninterrupted nose through the refuse.
Saving the pygmy hogs had been touch and go; he had drawn up his first action plan in 1977, but was unable to get the state of Assam and the government of India to agree to protect them properly until 1995.
See articleOink, oinkIn this section Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon ReprintsThose market hogs were perversely cheered by news that America's economic growth rate for the first quarter had been revised down, to 1.8% at an annual rate from a previous estimate of 2.4%.
