[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.
PIG-TAIL
Meaning of PIG-TAIL in English
Jargon File English vocabulary. Английский словарь жаргона. 2012