pig pile
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pig pile
- /ˈpɪɡpʌɪl/ UK
- /ˈpɪɡˌpaɪl/ US
Where it comes from
Originally as a verb, by analogy with the disorderly huddling behavior of pigs.
verb pig piles · pig piling · pig piled · pig-pile · pigpile
- To cause a group of people to lie in a pile upon another, originally as a punishment to the victim on the bottom. She made the worst speller lie down on the floor, the next worst on top of him, and so pig-piled the whole class, dressing off the upper one with a shingle.
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To jump into such a pile.
They pig-piled at the very end, and we threw ice cubes on them.
Similar: dogpile
- To act similarly with regard to residential density: to live or cause to live in high-density settlements. We're pig-piling in hot spots. If the entire population were to be given an acre of ground... they wouldn't occupy the state of Texas.
noun pig piles · pig-pile · pigpile
- A disorderly pile of people formed by jumping upon a victim. Rolling in a mud-puddle, heels up in the air, amid a mound of humanity, very pertinently called a 'pig-pile'.
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