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pig pile

UK /ˈpɪɡpʌɪl/US /ˈpɪɡˌpaɪl/

verb 3
noun 1
forms 3

verb3

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(US, informal) 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. — 1873
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(US, informal) To jump into such a pile.
- They pig-piled at the very end, and we threw ice cubes on them. — 1989
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(informal, figurative) 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. — 1957

noun1

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(US, informal) 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'. — 1880

forms

pig piled · pig piling · pig piles

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