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hog

verb

Pronunciation: /hɒɡ/

To take or keep more than one's fair share of something, preventing others from using or enjoying it.

Please don't hog the bathroom for an hour when others need to get ready for work.
He tends to hog the conversation, rarely letting anyone else get a word in edgewise.
The company was accused of trying to hog the market by buying out all its smaller competitors.

hog the [noun] (collocation): To take all of a specific resource. — "Stop hogging the remote control."
hog [something] to oneself (idiom): To keep something entirely for one's own use. — "She hogged the best seat in the room to herself."

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