Pig (disambiguation)
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A pig is a type of animal. The word 'pig' usually refers to the domestic pig, though it may also refer to the wild boar. See either of these articles for discussion of nomenclature and subspecies. An unrelated group of animals are known as Guinea pigs.
The words pig, piggy and swine may also refer to:
[edit] People
- Pig, an offensive insult directed at a person implying slob-like, womanizing, or gluttonous behavior
- Pig, an offensive term for a police officer
- Sky Pig, an offensive term for a Skytrain (Vancouver) police officer (see also Flying pig)
- Denis D'Amour, deceased guitar player from the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod
[edit] Fictional characters
- Pig, a character from the Shuriken School cartoon
- Piggy from the novel Lord of the Flies
- Miss Piggy, a character from the Muppets
- Piggy from the Merrie Melodies cartoons
- Piggy, a character from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
- Pigwidgeon, sometimes called 'Pig', an owl from the Harry Potter novels
[edit] Games
- Pig, a dice game
- Pig, a card game
- PIG, a basketball variation similar to HORSE
[edit] Military
- Pig, the M60 Machine gun
- Pig, an Australian nickname for the F-111 military airplane
- Humber Pig, a military vehicle most notably used in Northern Ireland
[edit] Music
- Pig is a song by the Dave Matthews Band
- PIG, the one-man band formed by Raymond Watts
- Piggies is a famryard George Harrison song by the Beatles
- March of the Pigs is a song by Nine Inch Nails from their 1994 album The Downward Spiral
- Piggy is another song by Nine Inch Nails from their 1994 album The Downward Spiral
- Pigs (Three Different Ones) is a song by Pink Floyd on their 1977 album Animals
- Pigs on the Wing is a two part song by Pink Floyd, also on their 1977 album Animals
- War Pigs is a song by Black Sabbath from their 1970 album Paranoid
- PIG is an early demo version of the song Mr Jack on the album Steal This Album! by System of a down. It was first seen on the Untitled 1995 Demo Tape.
[edit] Other
- Pig, a short story by Roald Dahl
- Pig, a device sent through a pipeline for inspection, cleaning, product separation or other purposes
- Pig, a sign from the Chinese Zodiac
- PIG, a campaign strategy
- Pig iron, a bar of iron or lead from a smelting furnace
- Flying pig, a symbol of impossibility
- Smart pig, intelligent in-line inspection technique
- Pig (film) a film written by, and starring, Rozz Williams
- Guinea pig, a domesticated rodent
- Piggy, nickname of the PEGI
[edit] Swine
- Świna, a river in Poland
- Swine, East Riding of Yorkshire, English village
- S.W.I.N.E., video game