Peg

PEG or peg may refer to:

Devices

• Clothes peg, a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying
• Tent peg, a spike driven into the ground for holding a tent to the ground
• Tuning peg, used to hold a string in the pegbox of a stringed instrument
• Piton, a metal spike that is driven into rock to aid climbing
• PEG tube, a medical device, that is, a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube
• Foot peg, a place to put one's foot on a vehicle such as a motorcycle

Science and computing

• Pegasus (constellation), abbreviated Peg, a constellation in the northern sky
• Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, a medical procedure
• Polyethylene glycol, a chemical polymer
• Parsing expression grammar, a type of formal grammar used in mathematics and computer science
• PCI Express Graphics adapter, an abbreviation commonly used in BIOS settings
• Pneumoencephalography, an obsolete medical procedure for brain imaging

Recreation

• Peg, a rule in the game of backyard cricket
• Peg, a position or post in a driven hunt where a gun will stand
• Peg (fishing), an area set aside for an angler
• Peg solitaire, a board game for one player
• Pegs, pieces from the board game The Game of Life representing people
• Pinnacle Entertainment Group, a game company

People and fictional characters

• Peg (nickname)

Codes

• Pegswood railway station, United Kingdom, National Rail station code PEG
• Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport, Italy, IATA airport code PEG
• Pengo language, spoken in the Nabarangpur district of Odisha, India, ISO 639-3 code peg

Other uses

• Peg (unit), an Indian measure used in preparing alcohol, from 1 to 2 fluid ounces
• PEG or PEGA channels, public, educational, and government access cable TV channels in the United States
• Peg, or fixed exchange-rate system, a system to value currencies
• PEG ratio, price/earnings to growth ratio, a stock price analysis tool
• "Peg" (song), a 1977 song by Steely Dan
• Producer Entertainment Group, a talent agency
• Program for the Exceptionally Gifted, a program at Mary Baldwin College
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, nicknamed "The Peg"

See also

• Pegging (disambiguation)
• Pegged