pig dog

Meanings

1. A dog bred to hunt wild pigs, typically based on breeds such as Staffordshire Terrier and English Bull Terrier.
2. A contemptible or worthless person.
3. A stance used for surfing tubes on one’s backhand. The surfer crouches low over a bent front knee, back leg extending back, outside hand holding onto the outside rail, and inside arm extended upwards touching the face of the wave as a guide (or digging in to slow down).

1. To surf in the pig dog stance.

Etymology

In Sense 2, a calque of German Schweinehund. Taj Burrow offers two (perhaps fanciful) explanations for Sense 3: that surfers tend to assume a dog-like expression when in this stance (page 119) or that the stance is low and sturdy like a dog (glossary page 171).