Pronunciations (5)
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/ˈpɛɡ/
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[ˈpʰɛɡ]
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/ˈpeɪ̯ɡ/
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[ˈpʰeɪ̯ɡ]
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pɛɡ
Noun
A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
A protrusion used to hang things on.
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Hang your coat on the peg and come in.
A support; a reason; a pretext.
Usage- Figurative
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a peg to hang a claim upon
A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
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The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.
A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
Usage- UK usage
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This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink.
The name had come to mean any aromatic essence of herbs by the time the first thirsty colonial poured a peg of Who-shot-John into his mint water.
A place formally allotted for fishing
A leg or foot.
Usage- Colloquial
- Dated
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"Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."
One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
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O, you are well tuned now! / But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, / As honest as I am.
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Did we form ourselves, choosing, and our powers? I find myself, for one, as a stringed instrument with chords and stops - but I have no power to turn the pegs, or pitch my thoughts to a higher or lower key.
A step; a degree.
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to screw papal authority to the highest peg
We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg[…]
A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
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[…] all news media keep a supply of features on hand, waiting for a peg to make them topical.
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Journalists and prospective sources wishing to attract their attention are constantly on the lookout for pegs. The process by which a peg is identified is informed by news values.
A stump.
Usage- Slang
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Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six.
The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.
Usage- Slang
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Get your strap-on out and give me a nice peg!
A serving of brandy and soda.
Usage- Archaic
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I then ordered a "peg" (brandy-and-soda) to be brought to my tent, and returned to have a smoke before turning in again.
A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
Usage- India
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This is the sort of drinking that Anna Hazare fought to eradicate from Ralegan Siddhi, as Colonel Phatak explained, after I joked about an army man needing his evening peg of whisky before dinner.
A shilling.
Usage- UK usage
- Obsolete
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The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
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To remember this list of early psychologists, you recall each peg along with its image of an early psychologist that you placed there.
Multiple items can be stored at each location or with each peg.
Verb
To fasten using a peg.
Usage- Transitive
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Let's peg the rug to the floor.
To affix or pin.
Usage- Transitive
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I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.
She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.
To fix a value or price.
Usage- Transitive
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China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar.
Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.
To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
Usage- Transitive
To throw.
Usage- Slang
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To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
Usage- Transitive
To indicate or ascribe an attribute to; to classify or pigeonhole someone.
Usage- Slang
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He's been pegged as a suspect.
I pegged his weight at 165.
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Bolan pegged his weight somewhere around 150 pounds. If he was armed, the weapon wasn't showing. Still, the Executioner would take no chances.
You got me pegged wrong, Captain.
The man had me pegged—I was already planning to visit the next day, having received a similar tip from multiple friends.
To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
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She pegged twelve points.
To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
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We pegged the speedometer across the flats.
To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.
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When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs […]
To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
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For more than the period of his splendid service in India, which the country was not slow to acknowledge, the Volunteers had kept pegging at it, despite all the official obstacles thrown in the way […]
To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.
Usage- Archaic
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To drive (a hackney carriage).
Usage- UK usage
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Transitive
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I was pegging a hack when the horse started limping. I got down to see if he'd picked up a stone and he lashed out at me.
Noun
a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
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small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
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informal terms for the leg
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fever left him weak on his sticks
a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
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regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
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a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
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Verb
succeed in obtaining a position
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He nailed down a spot at Harvard
pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
fasten or secure with a wooden pin
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peg a tent
stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
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The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar