hog cholera

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   highly infectious virus disease of swine

   Broaderanimal disease

Questions about hog cholera

What does hog cholera mean?

hog cholera means "highly infectious virus disease of swine".

Is hog cholera a common word?

hog cholera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.