In East Texas back in the day, a Tush Hog was an enforcer, usually for illegal or illicit activities/persons. Tush usually refers to prostitutes (remember the ZZ Topp reference in "LaGrange" (my hometown, BTW)), something a lot of Tush Hogs in the Houston/Pasadena area were associated with, usually pimping or the hired muscle to keep everything moving. If someone wanted someone else hit or roughed up, Tush Hogs were the go to guys. Tush Hogs were never called that to their face, but everyone knew who they were. When I was a kid, I met one from Channelview TX that got jumped in a bar and shot in the forehead with a .25 cal. pistol...he immediately threw up all over the shooter then beat him half to death. Then drove himself to the hospital. Bad, bad men....