hog-dogging

hog-dogging
 n.— «Authorities arrested a Cave Creek couple Friday on animal-abuse charges over a bloody sport known as “hog dogging,” in which bull terriers are released in an arena area to chase down wild boars.» —“Husband and wife busted in bloody sport involving dogs, hogs” Arizona Republic Dec. 17, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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