Meaning of Peg | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female given name.
   diminutive, form-of
2. Diminutive of Margaret.
   diminutive, form-of
3. Clipping of Winnipeg (city), usually preceded by "the".
   Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
4. A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
5. Acronym of polyethylene glycol.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
6. Clipping of Peggy.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
7. A protrusion used to hang things on.
8. Initialism of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
9. A support; a reason; a pretext.
   figuratively
10. Initialism of price/earnings to growth.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
11. A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
12. Initialism of public, educational, and government (access television).
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
13. A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
14. Initialism of parsing expression grammar.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
15. A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
    UK
16. Abbreviation of pyroelectric generator.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
17. A place formally allotted for fishing
18. A leg or foot.
    colloquial, dated
19. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
20. A step; a degree.
21. Ellipsis of clothes peg.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
22. A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
23. A stump.
    slang
24. The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.
    slang
25. A serving of brandy and soda.
    archaic, slang
26. A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
    India
27. A shilling.
    UK, obsolete, slang
28. An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.

Equivalents

Examples

“Hang your coat on the peg and come in.”

“a peg to hang a claim upon”

“The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.”

“This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink.”

“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.”

“"Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."”

“O, you are well tuned now! / But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, / As honest as I am.”

“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.”

“to screw papal authority to the highest peg”

“We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg[…]”

“[…] all news media keep a supply of features on hand, waiting for a peg to make them topical.”

“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.”

“Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six.”

“Get your strap-on out and give me a nice peg!”

“I then ordered a "peg" (brandy-and-soda) to be brought to my tent, and returned to have a smoke before turning in again.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To remember this list of early psychologists, you recall each peg along with its image of an early psychologist that you placed there.”

“Multiple items can be stored at each location or with each peg.”

“I just got back from the Peg.”

“PEG ratio”

“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.”

CEFR level