| Front | peg |
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| Back | noun, verb BrE /peɡ/NAmE /peɡ/ noun 1 a short piece of wood, metal or plastic used for holding things together, hanging things on, marking a position, etcThere's a peg near the door to hang your coat on. Mark the boundary with pegs. 2 (also ˈtent peg) a small pointed piece of wood or metal that you attach to the ropes of a tent and push into the ground in order to hold the tent in place 3 (also ˈclothes peg) (both BrE)(NAmE clothes•pin)a piece of wood or plastic used for attaching wet clothes to a clothes line4 (also ˈtuning peg) a wooden, metal or plastic screw used for making the strings of a musical instrument tighter or looser ˌoff the ˈpeg (BrE)(NAmE ˌoff the ˈrack)(of clothes) made to a standard average size and not made especially to fit youHe buys his clothes off the peg. off-the-peg fashionsˌbring/ˌtake sb ˈdown a peg (or two)to make sb realize that they are not as good, important, etc. as they think they areHe needed to be taken down a peg or two.a peg to ˈhang sth onsomething that gives you an excuse or opportunity to discuss or explain sthThe character provides a peg to hang the writer's political ideas on. more at a square peg (in a round hole) atsquare adj. verb (-gg-)1 to fasten sth with pegs~ sth (out) + adv./prep.All their wet clothes were pegged out on the line.~ sth to sth She was busy pegging her tent to the ground. 2 [usually passive] to fix or keep prices, wages, etc. at a particular level~ sth (at sth)Pay increases will be pegged at 5%.~ sth (to sth) Loan repayments are pegged to your income. to peg the exchange rate to the dollar Admission prices have been pegged. 3 ~ sb as sth (NAmE, informal) to think of sb in a particular wayShe pegged him as a big spender. see be level pegging at level adj. ˌpeg aˈway (at sth)(informal, especially BrE) to continue working hard at sth or trying to achieve sth difficultˌpeg sb/sthˈback(especially in sport) to stop sb/sth from winning or increasing the amount by which they are aheadEach time we scored we were pegged back minutes later.ˌpeg ˈout(BrE, informal) to die |
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