peg

noun18

1. •
   a small round bar of wood or metal, driven into a hole so that two parts stay joined
2. •
   A protrusion used to hang things on.

   • Hang your coat on the peg and come in.
3. •
   A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
4. •
   One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

   • O, you are well tuned now! / But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, / As honest as I am. — 1603
5. •
   Ellipsis of clothes peg.
6. •
   A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.

   • […] all news media keep a supply of features on hand, waiting for a peg to make them topical. — 2004
7. •
   An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.

   • To remember this list of early psychologists, you recall each peg along with its image of an early psychologist that you placed there. — 2013
8. •
   (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
9. •
   A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.

   • The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg. — 2022
10. •
    (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.

    • This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink. — 1898
11. •
    (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.

    • This is the sort of drinking that Anna Hazare fought to eradicate from Ralegan Siddhi, as Colonel Phatak explained, after I joked about an army man needing his evening peg of whisky before dinner. — 2008
12. •
    (slang) The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.

    • Get your strap-on out and give me a nice peg!
13. •
    (slang) A stump.

    • Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six. — 1961
14. •
    A step; a degree.

    • We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg[…] — 1662
15. •
    (informal, old-fashioned) A leg or foot.

    • "Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books." — 1913
16. •
    A place formally allotted for fishing
17. •
    (slang, no longer used) A serving of brandy and soda.

    • I then ordered a "peg" (brandy-and-soda) to be brought to my tent, and returned to have a smoke before turning in again. — 1894
18. •
    (slang, no longer used) A shilling.

verb13

1. •
   To fasten using a peg.

   • Let's peg the rug to the floor.
2. •
   To affix or pin.

   • I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.
   • She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.
3. •
   (slang) to judge that someone belongs to a particular type or group

   • He's been pegged as a suspect.
   • I pegged his weight at 165.
4. •
   to fix a price, a wage or the value of a currency at a certain level, often by tying it to the value of something else such as the dollar

   • China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar.
5. •
   To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
6. •
   (slang) to throw a ball or another object hard and fast, often so that it hits someone
7. •
   To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
8. •
   (slang) to have sex with someone by wearing a dildo on a belt and pushing it into their anus

   • When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs […] — 2007
9. •
   (slang) to make a gauge go up to the highest number it can show

   • We pegged the speedometer across the flats.
10. •
    to score points in cribbage by moving a small pin forward into holes along a board

    • She pegged twelve points.
11. •
    to change the shape of pants so that each leg gets tighter toward the foot
12. •
    (slang, no longer used) to drink alcohol regularly, especially brandy mixed with soda water
13. •
    (slang, no longer used) to drive a cab, especially one pulled by a horse

    • I was pegging a hack when the horse started limping. I got down to see if he'd picked up a stone and he lashed out at me. — 2014

noun7

1. •
   Acronym of polyethylene glycol.
2. •
   Initialism of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
3. •
   Initialism of price/earnings to growth.
4. •
   Initialism of parsing expression grammar.

   • This is a form of grammar called a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG). PEGs use a different form of grammar which can handle most context-free situations and some context-sensitive ones. — 2010
5. •
   Initialism of public, educational, and government (access television).
6. •
   Abbreviation of pyroelectric generator.
7. •
   (no longer used) Abbreviation of pneumoencephalography