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Warsaw Pact, the (oh) and hog(2) (iou)


Warsaw Pact, the (oh)



also Warsaw Treaty Organization
a group of countries in eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and the former Soviet Union, which was established in 1955 to oppose NATO during the Cold War .The Warsaw Pact ended in 1991 when most of the Communist governments of eastern Europe lost power.

hog(2) (iou)



hog verb. Infl. -gg-. M17.
[from the noun.]
I.
verb trans. Nautical. Clean the bottom of (a ship) with a hog. Now rare. M17.
verb trans. Curling. Play (a stone) without enough force for it to cross the hog-score. E19.
II.
verb trans. Cut (a horse's mane) short so that it stands up like a hog's bristles. M18.
verb trans. Arch (the back); cause (a boat, plank, etc.) to rise archwise in the centre and sag at the ends as a result of strain. L18.
Wellington Draught bullocks...stick in the mud, hog their backs, droop their heads and die.
b. verb intrans. Arch the back; (of a ship) rise archwise in the centre. L18.
verb trans. Appropriate greedily or selfishly; take an unduly large share of for oneself, monopolize. colloq. L19.
A. Brookner My mother..hogged all the attention at my wedding. Brides & Setting up Home Who hogs the duvet is no longer a problem.
b. verb trans. Eat (something) greedily. colloq. E20.
C. Thubron A modern restaurant where I hogged down two bowls of the meat soup.
c. verb trans. with it & intrans. Behave as a road-hog, monopolize the road. E20.
III.
verb trans. Keep (a lamb) over winter for sale the following year. Now chiefly Scot. E19.
verb trans. Feed swine on (a crop or crop-covered land). Also foll. by down, off. US colloq. M19.
Comb.: hog-mane a hogged mane; hog-maned adjective having a hog-mane.