peg

name

Etymology: Shortening.

1. Clipping of Winnipeg (city), usually preceded by "the".

   “I just got back from the Peg.”

noun

1. Acronym of polyethylene glycol.
2. Abbreviation of pneumoencephalography
3. Initialism of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
4. Initialism of price/earnings to growth.

   “PEG ratio”

5. Initialism of public, educational, and government (access television).
6. Initialism of parsing expression grammar.

   “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.”

7. Abbreviation of pyroelectric generator.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak. This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare. (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.

1. To fasten using a peg.

   “Let's peg the rug to the floor.”

2. To affix or pin.

   “I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.”

   “She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.”

3. To fix a value or price.

   “China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar.”

   “Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.”

4. To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
5. To throw.
6. To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
7. To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.

   “He's been pegged as a suspect.”

   “I pegged his weight at 165.”

8. To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.

   “She pegged twelve points.”

9. To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).

   “We pegged the speedometer across the flats.”

10. To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.

    “When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs […]”

11. To keep working hard at something; to peg away.

    “For more than the period of his splendid service in India, which the country was not slow to acknowledge, the Volunteers had kept pegging at it, despite all the official obstacles thrown in the way […]”

12. To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.
13. To drive (a hackney carriage).

    “I was pegging a hack when the horse started limping. I got down to see if he'd picked up a stone and he lashed out at me.”