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
  • Poetae Epici Graeci, an edition of fragments of ancient Greek literature
  • 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