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peg
verb- to watch or look at someone AUSTRALIA
- Spends half his time in the dressing room pegging off the blokes in the showers. — Suzy Jarratt, Permissive Australia, p. 101, 1970
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 69, 1977
- He pegged her up and down[.] — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 7, 1983
- [A] couple were even pegging over in his direction but quickly looked away when he looked like catching their eye. — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 256, 1992
- to identify someone or something US, 1940
- He went to the window, caught sight of what she pegged, and motioned Leo over. — Emmett Grogan, Final Score, p. 65, 1976
- — H. Craig Collins, Street Gangs, p. 223, 1979
- His Smash Hits good looks may have matured into the kind of fizzog that has him pegged for film stardom[.] — Andrew Holmes, Sleb, p. 103, 2002
- to push a disabled motorcyle with a second motorcyle by reaching out and putting your leg on the foot-rest (peg) of the disabled motorcyle US
- We decided to “peg” Terry home–I stuck my leg out and put my foot on his foot peg, and pushed Terry home while he leaned his bike into mine, so as to keep them next to each other. — Ralph “Sonny” Barger, Hell’s Angel, p. 167, 2000
- to throw something AUSTRALIA, 1941
- And we got all these rocks and pegged ‘em at ‘em. — Tracks, p. 83, October 1985
- to put someone on report UK, 1948
Originally military, then recorded in use in borstals and detention centres. - — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, July 1978
- in a card cheating scheme, to prepare a deck for a manoeuvre US
- — Frank Garcia, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice, p. 263, 1962
- to fix the market price of something UK, 1882
Originally Stock Exchange slang, then more general. - to anally penetrate a heterosexual man with a strap-on dildo US, 2001
▷ seeglossat:PEGGING
▶ peg it- to walk; to walk fast; to run; to hurry UK
A variation of LEG ITPEG - When you are pegging it from Groove Armada to Franz Ferdinand, you hardly have time to pick a fight[.] — The Guardian, p. 7, 28 June 2004
- to die UK
A variation of PEG OUT- [A] couple of prayers to the gaffer upstairs and then you pegged it. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 113, 1994
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