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Definitioner
Verb
- To fasten using a peg.
- To affix or pin.
- To fix a value or price.
- To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- To throw.
- To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)
- (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- (slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on a scale or gauge.
- (slang, typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating one's male partner with a dildo
Substantiv
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its body to measure its body length.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
- (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold
- (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
- (colloquial, dated) A leg or foot.
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- A step; a degree.
- clothes peg.
Exempel
- Let's peg the rug to the floor.
- Murray hung his coat on the peg beside the door and walked right into the living room.
- When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs [...]
- We pegged the speedometer across the flats.
- She pegged twelve points.
- I pegged his weight at 165.
- He's been pegged as a suspect.
- China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar.
- She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.
- I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.
- Hang your coat on the peg and come in.
- We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg[...]
- to screw papal authority to the highest peg
- As honest as I am.
- But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
- O, you are well tuned now!
- "Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."
- 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.
- a peg to hang a claim upon
Böjningsformer