(intransitive, originally, Canada, US, idiomatic, informal) To do something as completely or entirely as possible; to hold back or reserve nothing.
If you can afford a new computer, you might as well go the whole hog and get it custom built.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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