peg
[verb]
Synonyms: fasten, attach, fix, join, secure

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I. peg¹ /peɡ/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1400-1500; Origin: Probably from Middle Dutch pegge]

1. SHORT STICK a short piece of wood, metal, or plastic that is attached to a wall or fits into a hole, used especially to hang things on or to fasten things together:
Sarah hung her coat on the peg.
a table fitted together with pegs
a pattern made with coloured pegs on a board

2. HANGING WET CLOTHES British English a small plastic or wooden object used to fasten wet clothes to a thin rope to dry Synonym : clothes peg, clothespin American English

3. TENT a pointed piece of wood or metal that you push into the ground in order to keep a tent in the correct position

4. take/bring somebody down a peg (or two) to make someone realize that they are not as important or skilled as they think they are:
Evans is an arrogant bully who needs taking down a peg or two.

5. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT a wooden screw used to make the strings of a violin, guitar etc tighter or looser Synonym : tuning peg

6. a peg to hang something on British English something that is used as a reason for doing, discussing, or believing something:
As a peg to hang it on, the tournament had the 100th anniversary of Nehru’s birth.

7. DRINK British English old-fashioned a small amount of strong alcoholic drink, especially whisky or brandy
⇒ square peg in a round hole at square¹(12)

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II. peg² verb (past tense and past participle pegged, present participle pegging) [transitive]

1. to set prices, wages etc at a particular level, or set them in relation to something else
peg something at something
The dividend was pegged at 6.1p.
peg something to something
a currency pegged to the American dollar

2. to fasten something somewhere with a peg:
The tent flap was pegged open.
Outside, a woman was pegging sheets to a washing line.
peg somebody/something as something phrasal verb
to believe or say that someone has a particular type of character, or that a situation has particular qualities:
I’d had him pegged as a troublemaker.
peg away phrasal verb British English informal
to work hard and with determination
peg away at
She pegged away at her essay.
peg somebody/something ↔ back phrasal verb British English
to stop someone from winning in a sport or from increasing the amount by which they are winning – used in news reports:
They were pegged back by an equaliser from Jameson.
peg out phrasal verb

1. British English informal to die, or to fall down because you are tired

2. peg something ↔ out British English to fasten wet clothes to a washing line to dry

3. peg something ↔ out to mark a piece of ground with wooden sticks

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peg
noun
ADJ. steel, wooden | tent
VERB + PEG drive in, hammer in She hammered in the steel tent pegs.
insert, put in The score is kept by inserting pegs into a board.

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peg
peɡ
See: square peg in a round hole , take down a peg

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