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