1. taking or using more than one’s fair share of something
Usage: informal

1. the act of taking or using more than one’s fair share
Usage: informal
2. a structural deformation where the middle of a ship or beam bends upward
Usage: nautical; engineering

Examples

• Stop hogging the remote control and let someone else choose a channel.
• He’s been hogging the bathroom for twenty minutes.
• The children were hogging all the cookies at the party.
• Her constant hogging of the conversation made others uncomfortable.
• The ship’s hull showed signs of hogging after years at sea.
• Engineers detected hogging in the bridge’s main support beam.
• The old vessel suffered from severe hogging due to improper loading.