PG
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Translingual[edit]
Symbol[edit]
PG
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Initialism of parental guidance.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (AU) (file)
Adjective[edit]
PG (not comparable)
- Suitable for viewing, reading, or listening, by minors.
- 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- More significantly, rigid deference to Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.
Noun[edit]
PG (countable and uncountable, plural PGs)
- (uncountable, film, Britain, US) Parental Guidance (used to rate motion pictures that may be viewed by minors at their parents' discretion)
- (countable, chiefly UK) Paying guest.
- (countable, basketball) Point guard.
- (slang) Paregoric.
- 1948, William S. Burroughs, letter, 30 Nov 1948:
- Taking along a pint of P.G. and a large supply of goof balls to taper off.
- 1948, William S. Burroughs, letter, 30 Nov 1948:
- (biochemistry) Initialism of proteoglycan.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of propylene glycol.
Proper noun[edit]
PG
- Initialism of Proto-Germanic.
- Initialism of Persian Gulf.
- Initialism of Power Girl (“DC Comics superheroine”).
- 1997 October 25, Lightning, “REVIEW Power Girl #1, uhm, I mean Supergirl #16”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe, Usenet[2], message-ID <62tta5$a7g$1@206.230.70.77>:
- Although Supergirl fans will relish page 4, I believe the first panel of 5 says it all: after a full force ramming by SG, PG just casually tosses her into a wall. Now *that's* Power Girl.
- 1998 May 6, CaptT...@webtv.net, “Re: Why is TV kind of pre-Crisis and comics Post-Crisis”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe, Usenet[3], message-ID <6iouoe$1jf$1@newsd-134.iap.bryant.webtv.net>:
- Actually, a point could be made that the animated Supergirl is much more like Power Girl than the pre Crisis Supergirl.
- For one thing she adopted the name Karen (Karen Starr was the name Kara Zor-L created), also she wears PG's costume colors and has a strong resentment toward's Clark's overprotectiveness. The only difference is that the animated SG has the Kara Zor-El personality more than she does Power Girl's.
- 2005 September 21, tan...@bellsouth.net, “Re: JLU - WOW”, in alt.tv.cartoon-network, Usenet[4], message-ID <SL7Ye.4284$xg3.1881@bignews4.bellsouth.net>:
- I kinda hate how they made Power Girl (Kara/SG pre-Crisis on World 2 or 3?) evil and a clone of SG. One of my fav comics growing up was Supes, and PG and I think Green Arrow going after Vandal Savage.
- Abbreviation of Prince George's County.
- Initialism of Pokémon Go.
- Initialism of Project Gutenberg.
Synonyms[edit]
- (Pokémon): PoGo
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Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
PG
- Initialism of procuratore generale.
- Initialism of procura generale.
Proper noun[edit]
PG ?
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English PG; the meaning being a phono-semantic matching of English parental guidance, coined by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) in 2012.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
PG
- (film, television) Initialism of patnubay at gabay: parental guidance (television and motion picture rating in in the Philippines)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “PG” in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018.
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