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 boar (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, a pig subfamily, including Sus and other genera from Africa and southeast Asia
Suidae, a family of animals, including Suinae and other extinct Old World subfamilies
Suina, a suborder of mammals including Suidae, and the Tayssuidae (peccaries or "New World pigs")
Guinea pig, a domestic species of rodent that is popular as a pet
Hell pigs or terminator pigs, the Entelodonts, a family of extinct mammals

Places

Pig, Kentucky, US
Pine Island Glacier, a glacier of Antarctica

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Pigs (1973 film), a 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
Grisen (Danish for The Pig), 2008 Danish short film with Jesper Asholt
Pig (2010 film), a horror film by Adam Mason
Pig (2011 film), a film written by Henry Barrial
Pig (2018 film), an Iranian film
Pig (2021 film), an American drama film starring Nicolas Cage

Games

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

Literature

Pig (novel), by Andrew Cowan
"Pig" (short story), by Roald Dahl

Music

Albums and projects

Pig (musical project), musical project by Raymond Watts
Pigs (Asphalt Ballet album), 1993

Songs

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

Military

Humber Pig, a British military vehicle
General Dynamics F-111C, Royal Australian Air Force variant of the F-111 bomber nicknamed the pig
M60 machine gun, nicknamed "the pig"
Maiale (pig), a low speed human torpedo; see Midget submarine#Italy

Science and technology

Apache Pig, a MapReduce programming tool used on Hadoop, language Pig Latin
Pig, another term for ingot
Pipeline inspection gauge, a form of pipeline maintenance used in pigging
Pig, a small sandbag used for flood control inside a building
PIGS (gene), a human gene
Distillation pig, a piece of glassware that allows fractions to be collected without breaking vacuum
Lead pig, a container made of lead shielding for storing and transporting radioactive materials
The Pig (tool), a firefighting tool

Other uses

Pig, a derogatory term for a police officer
Pig (zodiac), a sign of the Chinese zodiac
Pisabo language (ISO 639-3 code: pig)
PIGS (economics), the economies of Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain, and sometimes Ireland
New Zealand DX class locomotive (DXR 8007 nicknamed "the pig")