hog tight
An American term, primarily from farming and rural contexts, describing a fence or enclosure that is secure enough to contain pigs — animals notorious for finding or creating gaps.
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An American term, primarily from farming and rural contexts, describing a fence or enclosure that is secure enough to contain pigs — animals notorious for finding or creating gaps. The phrase is used literally in agricultural settings and figuratively to mean extremely secure or difficult to breach.
The new fence along the bottom pasture was hog-tight at last, after two years of patching.
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(chiefly, US) A pig-proof fence.
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