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contest pig noun. Disk jockey jargon for a listener who tries to win every phone-in contest by utilizing speed dialers and multiple telephones.

Example Citation:
"She pounces on the phone using the preset buttons that most people have programmed with numbers like the police, the fire department and a hospital. She has them programmed with radio stations.

She wins. Again.

Johnny Ahysen, programming director for WFMF, 102.5 on the FM dial, described the woman above. Ahysen and others in the industry call these frequent winners 'contest pigs.' "
—Ken Marsh, "You've won!!!," The Advocate

Related Word:
phone tree

Subject Categories:
Culture - General
Language - Insults
Sociology - People

Posted on August 29, 1997 at 9:13 AM


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