pigtail

noun

hairstyle comprising usually paired braided or unbraided bundles
tobacco in small twisted strands or rolls
a short, flexible wire used in connecting a stationary terminal with a terminal having a limited range of motion
a short wire connected to an electric device, as a lead or ground

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/

Etymology: From pig + tail.

The tail of a pig.
Tobacco twisted into a string or roll.
“One person […] continued constantly to ply him with the very best pig-tail tobacco, which he had most carefully cut in very small pieces purposely for him.”
A braided plait of hair; queue.
“Let padded breasts, high coat collars, stiff stocks, broad-shouldered straps, tight belts, trowser-straps and boots be consigned to the tomb of pigtails and powder.”
“Such a filthy spectacle as we presented I have never seen before or since, and it will perhaps give some idea of the almost superhuman dignity of Billali's appearance when I say that, coughing, half-drowned, and covered with mud and green slime as he was, with his beautiful beard coming to a dripping point, like a Chinaman's freshly-oiled pigtail, he still looked venerable and imposing.”
A braided plait of hair; queue.
“[I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.”
A braided plait of hair; queue.
A braided plait of hair; queue.
“[…] Chinese, whom he called “pigtails”; or Indians, whom he dismissed as “baboos.””
A short length of twisted electrical wire.
The flamingo flower (anthurium)
Twisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.

Etymology: From pig + tail.