Peg

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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

Peg (unit), a measure used in preparing alcohol, from 1 to 2 fluid ounces
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 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"