Penguin

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A penguin is a flightless bird from the Southern Hemisphere.

Depending on context, the word Penguin may also refer to:

Bird

• An old name for the Great Auk, an extinct flightless bird

Clothing

• Original Penguin, a brand of apparel by MunsingWear
• A "Penguin Suit" can be used to describe a Tuxedo

Comic culture

• The Penguin, a villain in the Batman comic books
• Pokey the Penguin, a webcomic
• Penguins!, an animated television series
• Pingu, an animated television series
• Pecola, a Japanese CGI anime series
• Chilly Willy, a cartoon penguin who first appeared in a series of popular theatrical shorts
• Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, an animated cartoon show from the 1960s
• Piplup, the Penguin Pokémon

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
• Pingu Throw, another name for the Yetisports games
• Penguin Robot, a programmable bipedal robot

Food

• Penguin General Foods, a South Korean company which make canned goods
• Penguin Mints, a brand of caffeinated mints
• Penguin (biscuit) a brand of chocolate biscuit

Game

• Chill Penguin, a Maverick boss from Mega Man X
• Club Penguin, a mass multiplayer online role-playing game
• Penguin (solitaire), a solitaire card game

Music

• The Penguins, a 1950s doo-wop band best known for the top ten hit "Earth Angel"
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra, an English chamber jazz/progressive rock ensemble
• Penguin (album), an album by Fleetwood Mac

Place

• Penguin, Tasmania, a town in Tasmania, Australia

Publishing

• Penguin Group, a publishing company
  • Penguin Books, the British arm of the Penguin Group
• Penguin (book), a children's picture book by Polly Dunbar

Sports

• The Pittsburgh Penguins, a National Hockey League (NHL) team
• The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, an American Hockey League (AHL) team
• The Youngstown State University Penguins, the name of the various sports teams affiliated with the university
• The Penguin class of racing sailboat.

Films

• March of the Penguins, an award-winning documentary based on the migration process of penguins
• Farce of the Penguins, a parody of the above film

Other

• a type of Feynmann diagram, remotely resembling a penguin bird
• 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.
• HSK-5 Pinguin, a German Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser) merchant raider of WW2.
• SS Penguin, a New Zealand ferry which sank near Wellington in 1909.
• Penguins of Madagascar, Dreamworks animated series on Nickelodeon.

See also

• Penguin Island (disambiguation)

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