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Dictionary: pig-out   (pĭg'out')
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n. Slang
The act or an instance of voracious eating by a person or group.


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Eat ravenously, gorge oneself, as in The kids pigged out on the candy they had collected on Halloween. [Slang; early 1970s]

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The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
  Synonyms: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, satiate, scarf out

 
 
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