pig pile

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To cause a group of people to lie in a pile upon another, originally as a punishment to…

   To cause a group of people to lie in a pile upon another, originally as a punishment to the victim on the bottom.

   • She made the worst speller lie down on the floor, the next worst on top of him, and so pig-piled the whole class, dressing off the upper one with a shingle.
2. 2

   To jump into such a pile.

   • They pig-piled at the very end, and we threw ice cubes on them.
3. 3

   To act similarly with regard to residential density

   To act similarly with regard to residential density: to live or cause to live in high-density settlements.

   • We're pig-piling in hot spots. If the entire population were to be given an acre of ground... they wouldn't occupy the state of Texas.
   • We feel that this is... an area that can give enjoyment to thousands of people without pig-piling them and without causing major ecological disturbances.
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   1. 4

      A disorderly pile of people formed by jumping upon a victim.

      • Rolling in a mud-puddle, heels up in the air, amid a mound of humanity, very pertinently called a 'pig-pile'.

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