pig-tail

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pigtail \Pig"tail`\, n.
   1. The tail of a pig.
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   2. (Hair Dressing) A cue, or queue. --J. & H. Smith.
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   3. A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.
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            The tobacco he usually cheweth, called pigtail.
                                                  --Swift.
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from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

pig-tail


   [radio hams] A short piece of cable with two connectors on each end
   for converting between one connector type and another. Common
   pig-tails are 9-to-25-pin serial-port converters and cables to connect
   PCMCIA network cards to an RJ-45 network cable.

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "pigtail":
      braid, brush, bun, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, cavendish,
      chaw, chew, chewing tobacco, chignon, coil, cud, cue, cut plug,
      dock, eating tobacco, fantail, fid, knot, navy, navy plug, plait,
      queue, quid, rattail, stub, tail, tailpiece, tobacco juice,
      topknot, twist

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