a small cylindrical pin or dowel, sometimes slightly tapered, used to join two parts together
2.
a pin pushed or driven into a surface: used to mark scores, define limits, support coats, etc
3. music
any of several pins passing through the head (peg box) of a stringed instrument, which can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them
See also pin (sense 11)
4. Also called: clothes peg British
a split or hinged pin for fastening wet clothes to a line to dry
US and Canadian equivalent: clothespin
5. informal
a person's leg
6. Northern England dialect
a tooth
7. British
a small drink of wine or spirits, esp of brandy or whisky and soda
8.
an opportunity or pretext for doing something
a peg on which to hang a theory
9.
a mountaineering piton
10. croquet
a post that a player's ball must strike to win the game
11. angling
a fishing station allotted to an angler in a competition, marked by a peg in the ground
12. informal
a level of self-esteem, importance, etc (esp in the phrases bringortake down a peg)
13. informal peg leg
14. off the peg
verbWord forms: pegs, pegging or pegged
15. (transitive)
to knock or insert a peg into or pierce with a peg
16. (transitive; sometimes foll bydown)
to secure with pegs
to peg a tent
17. mountaineering
to insert or use pitons
18. (transitive)
to mark (a score) with pegs, as in some card games
19. (transitive) informal
to aim and throw (missiles) at a target
20. (intr; foll by away, along, etc) mainly British
to work steadily
he pegged away at his job for years
21. (transitive)
to stabilize (the price of a commodity, an exchange rate, etc) by legislation or market operations
Word origin
C15: from Low Germanic pegge
Examples of 'pegged' in a sentence
pegged
There were simply stretches of half-glimpsed -residential grandeur, hedged and fenced, pegged out and parceled off.
Mark Mills AMAGANSETT (2004)
They really pegged us back and got a couple of tries from kicks.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Research pegged the behemoth's extinction to around 2.6 million years ago.
2019, 'Did Great White Sharks Drive Megalodon to Extinction?', Smithsonianhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-white-sharks-could-be-responsible-megalodons-extinction-180971512/
They went 2-0 ahead, but were pegged back to 2-2.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Ottawa’s deficit is now pegged at $55.6-billion.
Globe and Mail (2010)
It also pegged the dollar to gold at a price of $35 an ounce.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He's also pegged price increases on season tickets for 10 years.
The Sun (2011)
His side went 3-0 up before being pegged back to 3-2.
The Sun (2017)
Not in the usual sense of an asset whose valued is pegged to inflation.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
My 62-year-old husband was happy to be pegged as 50 or 38.