Usually means: Restraining by binding hands, feet.
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  1. hog-tie: Merriam-Webster
  2. hog-tie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hog-tie: Vocabulary.com
  4. hog-tie: Wordnik
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  6. hog-tie: Dictionary.com
  7. Hog-tie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  9. hog-tie: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hog-tie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. hog-tie: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hog-tie)

verb:  (transitive) To tie the feet of person or animal together; originally all four legs of a quadruped.
verb:  (figuratively) To render helpless.
noun:  The act of tying the feet together in this way.

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