peg
IPA: pˈɛg
noun
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
- (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
- (colloquial, dated) A leg or foot.
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- A step; a degree.
- (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- (cricket, slang) A stump.
- (slang) The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a strap-on dildo.
- (slang, archaic) A serving of brandy and soda.
- (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A shilling.
- (psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
- Ellipsis of clothes peg. [(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An object (usually made of wood or plastic) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry.]
- A female given name [A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.]
- Clipping of Peggy. [A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.]
- (Canada, slang) Abbreviation of the city of Winnipeg. Usually preceded by "the".
- (chemistry) Acronym of polyethylene glycol. [(chemistry) Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of general formula [CH₂-CH₂-O]ₙ, used in detergents and as emulsifiers and plasticizers.]
- (medicine, countable) Initialism of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
- Initialism of price/earnings to growth.
- (uncountable) Initialism of public, educational, and government (access television). [The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.]
- (computer science, countable) Initialism of parsing expression grammar.
- Abbreviation of pyroelectric generator.
verb
- (transitive) To fasten using a peg.
- (transitive) To affix or pin.
- (transitive) To fix a value or price.
- (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- (transitive, slang) To throw.
- (transitive, kickball) To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
- (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
- (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- (slang, transitive, typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a strap-on dildo.
- (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- (slang, archaic) To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.
- (UK, slang, obsolete, transitive) To drive (a hackney carriage).
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