hog-dogging

hog-dogging
 n.— «Now I have, second hand, a story on people who sic dogs on captured wild hogs, chasing them around a pasture and biting them into submission. This is no joke. Hog dogging rodeos are for real and they’re happening throughout rural Florida.» —“Hog Hunting Rodeos Are For The Dogs” by Ron Wiggins Palm Beach Post (Florida) May 19, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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