Definition of "peg"

peg

/pɛɡ/

noun
plural pegs
1. A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
2. A protrusion used to hang things on.
3. (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
4. (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
5. (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
  Quotations
  The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.
  2022, Simon Dingle, Steven Boykey Sidley, chapter 7, in Beyond Bitcoin‎, Icon Books
6. (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
  Quotations
  This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink.
  1898, unknown author, Harper's Magazine
  The name had come to mean any aromatic essence of herbs by the time the first thirsty colonial poured a peg of Who-shot-John into his mint water.
  1953, S. S. Field, The American drink book, page 65
7. A place formally allotted for fishing
8. (colloquial, dated) A leg or foot.
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  "Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."
  1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]
9. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
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  O, you are well tuned now! / But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, / As honest as I am.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
  Did we form ourselves, choosing, and our powers? I find myself, for one, as a stringed instrument with chords and stops - but I have no power to turn the pegs, or pitch my thoughts to a higher or lower key.
  1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […]
10. A step; a degree.
  Quotations
  to screw papal authority to the highest peg
  a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831
  We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg […]
  1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905
11. Ellipsis of clothes peg.
12. (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
  Quotations
  […] all news media keep a supply of features on hand, waiting for a peg to make them topical.
  2004, Herbert J. Gans, Deciding What's News
  Journalists and prospective sources wishing to attract their attention are constantly on the lookout for pegs. The process by which a peg is identified is informed by news values.
  2010, Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan, Keywords in News and Journalism Studies, page 111
13. (cricket, slang) A stump.
  Quotations
  Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six.
  1961, Colin McCool, Cricket is a Game, page 123
14. (slang) The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a strap-on dildo.
15. (slang, archaic) A serving of brandy and soda.
  Quotations
  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, Arthur Travers Crawford, Reminiscences of an Indian Police Official, page 183
16. (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
  Quotations
  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 September 2, Daniel Lak, India Express: The Future of the New Superpower, St. Martin's Press
17. (UK, slang, obsolete) A shilling.
  Quotations
  The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
  1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90
18. (psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
  Quotations
  To remember this list of early psychologists, you recall each peg along with its image of an early psychologist that you placed there.
  2013, Rod Plotnik, Haig Kouyoumdjian, Introduction to Psychology
  Multiple items can be stored at each location or with each peg.
  2023, W. Scott Terry, Learning and Memory: Basic Principles, Processes, and Procedures, page 168
verb
third-person singular simple present pegs, present participle pegging, simple past and past participle pegged
1. (transitive) To fasten using a peg.
2. (transitive) To affix or pin.
3. (transitive) To fix a value or price.
  Quotations
  Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.
  2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51
4. (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
5. (transitive, slang) To throw.
6. (transitive, kickball) To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
7. (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
8. (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
9. (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
10. (slang, transitive, typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a strap-on dildo.
  Quotations
  When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs […]
  2007, Violet Blue, The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Strap-On Sex‎, page 32
11. (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
  Quotations
  For more than the period of his splendid service in India, which the country was not slow to acknowledge, the Volunteers had kept pegging at it, despite all the official obstacles thrown in the way […]
  1911, William Montgomerie Lamont, Volunteer memories, page 160
12. (slang, archaic) To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.

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