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peg noun- a look AUSTRALIA
- Better have a peg at the news, I s’pose. — Jim McNeil, The Old Familiar Juice, p. 100, 1973
- So the day of the big date arrives and I wake up in the morning, drift into the bathroom past the mirror, a quick peg at myself on the run and I stopped in horror. — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, p. 28, 1995
- a person’s leg UK, 1878
- I’m gunner cut that geezer’s peg off. See what ‘appens. — Chris Baker and Andrew Day, Lock, Stock... & A Good Slopping Out, p. 457, 2000
- heroin US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 206, 2002
- a golf tee US, 1946
- — Dawson Taylor, How to Talk Golf, p. 52, 1985
- the penis US
- I could have swung her over me and sat her on the peg, but I had lost all interest in that. — Robert Byrne, McGoorty, p. 84, 1972
▶ give a peg to reconnoitre, especially with criminal intent AUSTRALIA- — The (Sydney) Bulletin, 26 April 1975
▶ on the peg of driving, at the speed limit UK Citizens’ band radio slang.- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 156, 1981
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