pig it

English

Verb

pig it (third-person singular simple present pigs it, present participle pigging it, simple past and past participle pigged it)

1. (intransitive, slang) To live slovenly, in squalor.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5:

     "I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job."