pig heaven

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pig heaven

1. A supposed place where pigs go when they die. When I asked my dad what happened to the pigs on Uncle Larry's farm, he said they all go to pig heaven. We kept a pot-bellied pig as a pet for nearly 15 years before he went to pig heaven.

2. A place where pigs are extremely happy or content. Our property has a huge open space full of mud, shady trees, and places to root—it's basically pig heaven!

3. offensive slang A police station or headquarters. ("Pig" is a common derogatory slang term for a police officer.) Primarily heard in US. They're bringing Tommy to pig heaven in the back of a police car.

4. offensive slang A supposed place where police officers go when they die. Typically offensive or derogatory. Primarily heard in US.

5. offensive slang A place where police love to congregrate or would be extremely happy or content. Primarily heard in US. This new doughnut shop must be pig heaven for all the local cops.

pig heaven

n. a police station. (Chiefly black.) All the bacon eventually goes home to pig heaven.

See also: heaven, pig

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The Brodsky Organization recently closed a deal with Pig Heaven at 1420 Third Avenue.

A long-time neighborhood favorite, Pig Heaven will be relocating from their former space on Second Avenue and 80th and 81st Streets, which they previously occupied for 30 years.

My family has been frequenting Pig Heaven since I was a child, and we welcome them to our growing roster of restaurant tenants.

We are eager to open this new space and continue serving a community that has become like family," said Nancy Lee, owner of Pig Heaven.

Beloved Upper East Side restaurant Pig Heaven relocates to Third Ave

The sty is pig heaven and comes complete with water/feeding trough, a shelter, straw, a tasty meal of LEGO' carrots, and wheelbarrow and broom to help with all of those mucking out duties.

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I should have been around in the second half of the 19th century and I would have been in pig heaven.

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Tell them Reggie's gone to guinea pig heaven where he's made a lot of new friends, I suggested.

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At daylight we found the boar less than 40 yards from where he was hit, dead as a stone, with two boars sent to pig heaven on the first day of the trip, it was welcome therapy for a bad case of the winter blues.

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THE Everton supporter who expressed a preference for fast and furious 4-3 defeats over dull, dreary 1-1 draws must be in pig heaven at present.

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Clearly some of our national parks would be feral pig heaven.

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There are Victorian florals; Pig Heaven featuring four humorous pig motifs; Jenny's Garden, four botanical patterns; Noah's Ark; and some field-and-stream looks featuring fly-fishing and duck motifs.