pig

pig
n
1.
a policeman or woman. An offensive term that gained its greatest currency in the 1960s in the USA whence it was reimported into Britain. (It was used in the same sense in the late Victorian underworld.)
► 'Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon.' (Anti-war protestors' and demonstrators' slogan of the 1960s)
2a.
a girl. A usage from the argot of street gangs, beatniks, etc. since the 1950s. Surprisingly, in these contexts the word is not necessarily pejorative.
2b.
American
an ugly, repellent girl. A term current in the late 1980s in US col-leges, where 'Pig of the Year/Week' contests took place and the unwitting winner was presented with a prize.
3.
a sexist male, as characterised by fem-inists. A shortening of the catchphrase 'male chauvinist pig' (also rendered as MCP).
4.
a segment of an orange
These subsenses evoke the familiar im-ages of the pig as gluttonous and disgust-ing or round and chubby.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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  • Pig — Pig, n. [Cf. D. big, bigge, LG. bigge, also Dan. pige girl, Sw. piga, Icel. p[=i]ka.] 1. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. Two pigges in a poke. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zo[ o]l.) Any wild species of the genus {Sus}… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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