>A devastated student flew 400 miles to meet her lover in Amsterdam only to be told she was the victim of a cruel **'pull a pig'** prank.   
>
Sophie Stevenson, 24, from Stoke, forked out £350 on a flight after being invited to the Dutch capital by her Jesse Mateman, 21, who she met in Barcelona in August.  
   
>But when Miss Stevenson arrived at her hotel she received a text message telling her it was all a ruse and she had been stood up by the heartless Dutchman who told her, **'You've been pigged'**.  
>*[Daily Mail][1]*

Absolutely new slang for me but luckily the excerpt clearly tells me what “to be pigged” means. 


It seems to have origins in the informal BrEng expression, **[pig out][2]** :To eat ravenously; gorge oneself: “pigged out on cake”,  and according to *Macmillan Dictionary*, [*to eat an extremely large amount of food*][3]

Oxford Dictionaries lists a long list of idioms citing the four-hoofed  **[Suidae][4]** but no mention of the idiom used in the *The Daily Mail*

- Any idea as to when ***to be pigged*** was coined?   
- Is the phrase also used in the US? If not what would be its equivalent? *Prank* doesn't seem to cut the mustard.


  [1]: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4960848/Devastated-student-victim-cruel-pull-pig-joke.html
  [2]: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pigged
  [3]: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/british/pig-out
  [4]: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/pig