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peg

[peg]

noun, verb, pegged, peg⋅ging, adjective

–noun

1.	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.

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

3.	a notch or degree: to come down a peg.

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

5.	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.

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

news peg.

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

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

10.	British. clothespin.

–verb (used with object)

11.	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.

16.	Informal. to throw (a ball).

17.	Journalism. to base (an article, feature story, etc.) upon; justify by (usually fol. 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.

–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 ME pegge (n.), peggen (v.) < MD

Related forms:

pegless, adjective

peglike, adjective

Peg

[peg]

–noun

a female given name, form of Peggy.

news peg

–noun

1.	a news story that forms the basis of or justification for a feature story, editorial, political cartoon, or the like.

2.	the reference in a feature story, editorial, or the like, to the newsworthy event that underlies or justifies it.

Also called peg.

Origin:
1955–60

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peg (pěg)

1. A small cylindrical or tapered pin, as of wood, used to fasten things or plug a hole.
2. A similar pin forming a projection that may be used as a support or boundary marker.
Music One of the pins of a stringed instrument that are turned to tighten or slacken the strings so as to regulate their pitch.
A degree or notch, as in estimation: Our opinion of him went up a few pegs after he did the dishes.
Chiefly British A drink of liquor.
Baseball A low and fast throw made to put a base runner out.
Informal A leg, especially a wooden one.

v. pegged, peg·ging, pegs

v. tr.

To fasten or plug with a peg or pegs.
To designate or mark by means of a peg or pegs.
To fix (a price) at a certain level or within a certain range.
Informal To classify; categorize: I pegged her as an opportunist. Why do you have me pegged as the rowdy one?
Informal To throw.

v. intr.
To work steadily; persist: pegged away until our luck turned.

[Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch.]

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

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Language Translation for : peg

Spanish: clavija, estaca,

German: der Pflock,

Japanese: くぎ

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Peg

Peg\, n. A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water. [India]

This over, the club will be visted for a "peg," Anglice drink. --Harper's Mag.

Peg

Peg\, n. [OE. pegge; cf. Sw. pigg, Dan. pig a point, prickle, and E. peak.]

1. A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

2. A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

3. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained. --Shak.

4. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

5. A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."

To screw papal authority to the highest peg. --Barrow.

And took your grandess down a peg. --Hudibras.

Peg ladder, a ladder with but one standard, into which cross pieces are inserted.

Peg tankard, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions. "Drink down to your peg." --Longfellow.

Peg tooth. See Fleam tooth under Fleam.

Peg top, a boy's top which is spun by throwing it.

Screw peg, a small screw without a head, for fastening soles.

Peg

Peg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pegged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pegging.]

1. To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.

I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails. --Shak.

2. (Cribbage) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points. [Colloq.]

Peg

Peg\, v. i. To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.

peg (n.)

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 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).

peg

To fix the price of a new security issue during the issuance period through buying and selling it in the open market in order to ensure that the price in the secondary market will not fall below the offering price. Also called holding the market, price stabilization, stabilize. See also stabilization period.
To fix the rate at which foreign currencies exchange with one another.

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In addition to the idiom beginning with peg, also see square peg in a round hole; take down a notch (peg).

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