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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pigpen
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both policemen jumped out of the pigpen and ran toward the southern wall in search of the dark figure.
▪ The next man was a pigpen, in gray filthy overalls, and the dirt on him seemed about seven years old.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pigpen

Pigpen \Pig"pen`\ (p[i^]g"p[e^]n`), n. A pen, or sty, for pigs.

Wiktionary
pigpen

n. 1 A pigsty; an enclosure where pigs are kept. 2 Something extremely dirty or messy. 3 (label en cryptography) the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pigpen%20cipher

WordNet
pigpen

n. a pen for swine [syn: sty, pigsty]

Wikipedia
Pigpen

A pigpen is literally a pen that holds pigs, also known as a sty. Pigpen may refer to:

  • Pig-Pen, a character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts
  • Pigsty (film), a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Pigpen cipher, a substitution cypher in which the English letters are replaced with symbols that correspond to an easy-to-generate key
  • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, a founding member of the Grateful Dead
  • Pig Pen, a character in the 1978 film Convoy

Usage examples of "pigpen".

The rest of Pigpen was in the stockpot, headfirst in prizewinning barbeque sauce.

He wrinkled his nose at the smell of the pigpen by the corncrib, but beyond it stood the farmhouse, in the middle of a large, irregular yard where chickens and turkeys scratched.

The smithy adjoined the shop of a wagonwright, with the fabulous six-holer privy being situated hard by the spacious pigpens.

The Quislings were too busy in the henhouses and pigpens to notice much.

It was just a vice-president's office, smaller and modester than Perry's but still by no means a pigpen.

Todd's horse had been spooked by one of Wayne's bombs the year before, dumping him in the pigpens, so he kept one wary eye on the stockman as they passed him.

Just to the right of the line of outbuildings, the pigpens were surrounded by high, lightweight but sharp-edged metal barriers that could rip open the belly of any snake trying to crawl through.

On the port side there was even a pigpen holding about thirty of the tiny rabbit-eared porcines.