Penguin (disambiguation)
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Depending on context, the word Penguin may refer to:
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[edit] Bird
- a penguin — a flightless bird from the Southern Hemisphere
- an old name for the Great Auk - an extinct flightless bird which filled the ecological niche of true penguins in the North Atlantic
[edit] Clothing
- Original Penguin is a brand of apparel by MunsingWear
[edit] Comic culture
- Pokey the Penguin — a webcomic
- the Penguin — a villain in the Batman comic books
- Pingu — a cartoon penguin
- Pecola — a Japanese CGI penguin
- Tennessee Tuxedo — a television cartoon penguin from the 1960's
- HowtoKillAPenguin.com (HTKAP) — a web cartoon ...with an evil Llama
- Pochama, the Penguin Pokemon.
[edit] Computing
- Penguin Software — a home computer video game company in the 1980s.
- Tux — the penguin logo/mascot of the Linux project
- Penguin Booter — a boot loader to load Linux on m68k-based Macintosh computers, by loading the kernel into RAM from within Mac OS and transferring control.
[edit] Food
- Penguin Mints, a brand of caffeinated mints made by Seattle-based ifive brands
- Penguin biscuit a brand of chocolate biscuit made by McVitie's
[edit] Game
- Chill Penguin, a Maverick boss from Mega Man X
[edit] Music
- The Penguins — a 1950's doo-wop band best known for the top ten hit "Earth Angel"
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra
- Penguin, an album by Fleetwood Mac
[edit] Person
- George Mitchell aka The Penguin, famous Dublin Criminal[1]
[edit] Place
[edit] Publishing
- Penguin Group — the publishing company
- Penguin Books — the British publisher
[edit] Sporting
- The Pittsburgh Penguins — a National Hockey League (NHL) team
- The Youngstown State University Penguins, the name of the various sports teams affliated with the university
- A running group started by John Bingham [2]
- A juggling trick where you catch each ball by rotating your wrist to face the outside of the pattern, followed by rotating your wrist back to the middle (inside) of the pattern to throw it again
[edit] Other
- a type of Feynman diagram, remotely resembling a penguin bird - e.g. [3]
- a slang term for nuns, based on the stereotypical black habit with a white wimple
- a slang term for men wearing tuxedos
- Penguins — the school mascot for Portal School
- the Penguin missile
- The Penguins' Revolution or "The March of the Penguins", a 2006 chilean student protest.
