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Peg

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noun

a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.

Informal. a leg, either real or wooden: still on his pegs at 99.

a notch or degree: to come down a peg.

an occasion, basis, or reason: a peg to hang a grievance on.

Also called pin. Music. a pin of wood or metal in the neck of a stringed instrument that may be turned in its socket to adjust a string's tension.

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Informal. a throw, especially in baseball: The peg to the plate was late.

news peg.

Economics. the level at which some price, exchange rate, etc., is set.

British, Anglo-Indian. an alcoholic drink, especially a whiskey or brandy and soda.

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British. clothespin.

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verb (used with object)

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to drive or insert a peg into.

12.

to fasten with or as with pegs.

13.

to mark with pegs.

14.

to strike or pierce with or as with a peg.

15.

to keep (the commodity price, exchange rate, etc.) at a set level, as by manipulation or law.

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16.

Informal. to throw (a ball).

17.

Journalism. to base (an article, feature story, etc.) upon; justify by (usually followed by on): The feature on the chief of police was pegged on the riots.

18.

Informal. to identify: to peg someone as a good prospect.

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verb (used without object)

19.

to work or continue persistently or energetically: to peg away at a homework assignment.

20.

Informal. to throw a ball.

21.

Croquet. to strike a peg, as in completing a game.

adjective

22.

Also, pegged. tapered toward the bottom of the leg: peg trousers.

Idiom

23.

take down a peg, to reduce the pride or arrogance of; humble: I guess that'll take him down a peg!

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English pegge (noun), peggen (v.) < Middle Dutch

Related forms

peg·less, adjective

peg·like, adjective

re·peg, verb, -pegged, -peg·ging.

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noun

a female given name, form of Peggy.

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peg (pɛɡ)

—n
1.	a small cylindrical pin or dowel, sometimes slightly tapered, used to join two parts together
2.	a pin pushed or driven into a surface: used to mark scores, define limits, support coats, etc
3.	music See also pin any of several pins passing through the head (peg box) of a stringed instrument, which can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them
4.	(Brit) Also called: clothes peg, US and Canadian equivalent: clothespin a split or hinged pin for fastening wet clothes to a line to dry
5.	informal a person's leg
6.	dialect (Northern English) a tooth
7.	(Brit) a small drink of wine or spirits, esp of brandy or whisky and soda
8.	an opportunity or pretext for doing something: a peg on which to hang a theory
9.	a mountaineering piton
10.	croquet a post that a player's ball must strike to win the game
11.	angling a fishing station allotted to an angler in a competition, marked by a peg in the ground
12.	informal a level of self-esteem, importance, etc (esp in the phrases bringortake down a peg)
13.	informal See peg leg
14.	chiefly (Brit) off the peg (of clothes) ready to wear, as opposed to tailor-made

—vb (sometimes foll by down) , pegs, pegging, pegged
15.	(tr) to knock or insert a peg into or pierce with a peg
16.	to secure with pegs: to peg a tent
17.	mountaineering to insert or use pitons
18.	(tr) to mark (a score) with pegs, as in some card games
19.	informal (tr) to aim and throw (missiles) at a target
20.	chiefly (Brit) (intr; foll by away, along, etc) to work steadily: he pegged away at his job for years
21.	(tr) to stabilize (the price of a commodity, an exchange rate, etc) by legislation or market operations

[C15: from Low Germanic pegge]

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Main Entry:	peg¹
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	See news peg

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Word Origin & History

peg

1440, from M.Du. pegge "peg," a common Low Ger. word of uncertain origin (cf. Low Ger. pigge "peg," M.Du. pegel "little knob used as a mark"). The verb meaning "fasten with or as if on a peg" is first recorded 1598, from the noun. Slang sense of "identify, classify" first recorded 1920. To be a square

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peg in a round hole "be inappropriate for one's situation" is attested from 1836; to take someone down a peg is from 1589, but the original lit. sense is uncertain (most of the likely candidates are not attested until centuries later).

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Slang Dictionary

peg (so) definition

tv.
to gossip about someone. : Kim is always pegging Jill. What's her problem?

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