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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
warthog
noun
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▪ It is illustrated with drawings of buffalo, giraffe, warthog and camp scenes, and describes a rhino hunt.
Wiktionary
warthog

n. 1 A species of wild pig native to Africa. 2 A nickname for the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10%20Thunderbolt%20II air support warplane

WordNet
warthog

n. African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks

Wikipedia
Warthog (disambiguation)

A warthog is a wild member in the Phacochoerus genus that lives in Africa. It consists of 2 species:

  • Common warthog Phacochoerus africanus
  • Desert warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus
    • Cape warthog, Phacochoerus aethiopicus aethiopicus

It may also refer to:

  • "Warthog", nickname for the A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft
  • "Warthog", nickname for the Bronco All Terrain Tracked Carrier U.K. military vehicle
  • Warthog (Halo), a vehicle in the fictional Halo universe
  • " Warty Warthog", the code name for the first release (code number 4.10) of Ubuntu Linux
  • "Wart Hog", a song by punk rock group The Ramones, on their album Too Tough to Die
  • Warthog Games, an English video game studio
  • Winston-Salem Warthogs, the name from 1995 to 2008 of the Winston-Salem Dash
  • Harare International School, whose nickname is Warthogs

Usage examples of "warthog".

He would have given me Dralla of Marn or some other girl that looks like a warthog, because he was too stubborn to consider peace with Reec.

And not just the big fivethe elephant, rhinoceros, leopard, lion, and cape buffalobut also predators and prey of every ilk: the Nile crocodile, hippo, cheetah, hyena, wildebeest, jackal, giraffe, zebra, waterbuck, kudu, impala, reedbuck, warthog, baboons.

I could make out a warthog and a line of anteaters trundling nose to tail.

Two Warthogs and one Cobra gun-ship helicopter were arcing in formation down the valley toward Graniteville.

Nebo and Bolivar and stood blinking at the creatures that crowded the great space ahead like thirsty animals flocking around a water hole in a dry time, all of them different: warthogs and elephants, impalas and zebras, wildebeests and ibex.

The looming shapes of animals bunched up inside: antelopes, bushbucks, broad-headed warthogs with warthog children running behind them.

And for Chief Financial Officer and the next CEO, he had the managerial polish of a warthog.

There were trunks of elephants, tongues of the buffalo and fillets of Nubian mountain goat, the flesh of wild boar and warthog, gazelle and Nubian ibex, of monitor lizard and python, of crocodile and hippopotamus, oxen and sheep.

Now they’re waiting sentence by County Judge Everett Gage, one of the most flagrant segregationists and vicious warthogs in the white racist underground.

She and Gai bring warthog and kudu hides, porcupine quills, tortoise shells, ostrich eggs, a sharpening stone, an awl, two assagai blades, pots of Bantu clay.