pig it

present singular third person pigs it · participle present pigging it · participle past pigged it · past pigged it

1. intransitiveslangTo live slovenly, in squalor.

   "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."

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5