Pig (disambiguation)

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A pig is a mammal of the genus Sus.

Pig, PIG, Pigs, or PIGS may also refer to:

Animals

• Domestic pig, Sus scrofa domestica or Sus domestica
  • Wild Pig, or Eurasian Wild Boar, Sus scrofa, the species from which the domestic pig was bred
    • Sus, a genus within the pig family, including Sus scrofa and closely related southeast Asian species
      • Suinae, the pig subfamily, including Sus and other genera from Africa and southeast Asia
        • Suidae, the pig family, including Suinae and other extinct Old World subfamilies
          • Suina, a suborder of mammals including Suidae, and the Tayssuidae (peccaries or "New World pigs")

• Hell pigs or terminator pigs, the Entelodonts, a family of extinct mammals
• Pork, the meat of a domestic pig
• Feral pig, domestic pig living in the wild
• Guinea pig, a domestic species of rodent that is popular as a pet

In arts and entertainment

Film

• Daddy's Deadly Darling or Pigs, a 1972 horror film
• Pigs (1992 film) or Psy, a film by Wladyslaw Pasikowski
• Pig (1998 film), a 1998 film written by and starring Rozz Williams
• Pigs (2007 film), a film by Karl DiPelino
• Pig (2010 film), a horror film by Adam Mason
• Pig (2011 film), a film written by Henry Barrial

Games

• Pig (dice), a dice game
• Pig, a variation of the card game Spoons
• P-I-G, a variation of the basketball game H-O-R-S-E

Music

• Pigs (b.l.o.w. album), 1996
• Pigs (Asphalt Ballet album), 1993
• PIG (musical project), musical project by Raymond Watts
• "Pig" (song), a 1998 song by the Dave Matthews Band
• "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", a 1977 song by Pink Floyd
• "Pig", a bonus song from Weezer Deluxe Edition
• "Pigs", a song by Eyehategod from In the Name of Suffering
• "PIG", an early demo version of "Mr. Jack" by System of a Down
• "Pigs", a track on Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill's first album
• "Pig", a song by Seether from Disclaimer II
• "Pigs", a song by Tyler, the Creator from Wolf

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• "Pig" (short story), by Roald Dahl

In science and technology

• PIGS (genetics), a human gene
• Humber Pig, a British military vehicle
• Pig (programming tool), a MapReduce programming tool used on Hadoop
• Distillation pig, a piece of glassware that allows fractions to be collected without breaking vacuum
• Pig iron, a type of smelted iron
  • Pig, another term for ingot
• The Pig, a firefighting tool
• M60 machine gun (nicknamed "the pig")
• Pig (pipeline inspection gauge), used in pigging, a form of pipeline maintenance
• Lead pig, a container made of lead shielding for storing and transporting radioactive materials
• Pig, a small sandbag used for flood control inside a building

Other uses

• Pig, Kentucky
• Pig (zodiac), a sign of the Chinese zodiac
• PIGS (economics), acronym for the economies of Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain, used by bond analysts
• PIG (elections), a campaign strategy
• Partido da Imprensa Golpista, or PiG, a pejorative term for the mainstream Brazilian media
• Pine Island Glacier, or PIG, a glacier of Antarctica
• The Pisabo language in ISO 639-3 code, pig
• Slur for a police officer
• Slang for a glutton or gourmand
• Slang for a sexist man (male chauvinist pig)

See also

• Piggy (disambiguation)
• Piglet (disambiguation)
• Swine (disambiguation)
• Hog (disambiguation)
• Boar (disambiguation)
• Cultural references to pigs
• List of fictional pigs
• List of domestic pig breeds
• All pages beginning with "pig"
• All pages with titles containing "pig"