Word Finder - pegged

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To fasten using a peg.

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Let's peg the rug to the floor.

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To affix or pin.

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

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To fix a value or price.

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

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To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.

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To throw.

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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.)

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He's been pegged as a suspect.

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

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She pegged twelve points.

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

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We pegged the speedometer across the flats.

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(typically in heterosexual contexts) To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.

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To keep working hard at something; to peg away.

Dean pegged her to be Jerome Shipton's companion.

For propagation the bulbiferous portion is pegged down on the surface of a pot of suitable soil; if kept close in a moist atmosphere, the little buds will soon strike root and form independent plants.

Howie visited a suburban home in Orange County, Indiana and pegged the date by an open newspaper.

I use a series of soaker hoses pegged to the ground.

The Argentinian peso was pegged to the dollar and was made freely convertible.

The legs are splayed and pegged directly into the seat.

This netting is temporarily pegged onto the straining wires and can be removed easily when the weather turns inclement.

A beaming Thomson appears behind a clothes line upon which a pair of red knickers are pegged.

Chris missed but Patsy failed to get a rush to peg after making rover and pegged one ball out.

Tom pegged out Paul's peg ball and then ran penultimate with the wrong ball.

Interior of barn has 2 pegged king-post trusses with struts.

Shabana lengthened the rallies and pegged it back, and went on the edge the game 11/8.

The GameCube has been pegged as being for "kids", but that's inaccurate.

One such feature is the pegged through tenon.

They are increased by division, rooting freely when pegged down.

It is creeping, requires much space, and pegged down forms a dense mass which has a pretty effect in autumn.

R. Rubrifolia (Red-leaved R.) should have a place for its lovely-tinted leaves and shoots; it has a rambling or climbing habit, but also grows into a large self-supporting bush or spreads nicely when pegged down.

The plant is a cross with a Dijon Tea, and of freely rambling habit, well suited to pillars, arches, pergolas, and either to train against tree-trunks or pegged along the ground.

It is apt to grow rather straggling, and to prevent this it is kept neatly pegged down and cut in well.

By age eighteen, Forbes Magazine had her pegged as one of the tope ten money earning models in the world.

Roll up the sleeves of your layered t-shirts, and definitely, 'French' roll or cuff all your jeans to get the pegged jeans look.

It wasn't uncommon to spot a day-glow orange top with the sleeves folded, paired with pegged jeans.

Pegged jeans are so quintessentially '80s that it would be remiss not to mention them.

Choose a pair of black pegged pants and flats, and then wear your mini dress like a tunic instead of a dress.

Pegged shelves such as those used to hang baseball caps or ties make wonderful temporary stocking holders.

Originally pegged as a star athlete, Denton got bit by the acting bug in college and never looked back.

Fixed or variable rates are negotiated between the borrower and the lender subject to SBA maximums, pegged to the prime rate.

Variable rates can be pegged to either the lowest prime rate or the SBA optional peg rate, a weighted average of rates the fed pays for, calculated quarterly and published in the "Federal Register."

He couldn't very well say, 'I really am that pig you pegged me for, just trying to hide it from you, babe'.

Why did he continue the farce when he must realize she had him pegged?

In tonguing the leaves are cut off the portion which has to be brought under ground, and a tongue or slit is then cut from below upwards close beyond a joint, of such length that, when the cut part of the layer is pegged an inch or two (or in larger woody subjects 3 or 4 in.) below the surface, the elevation of the point of the shoot to an upright position may open the incision, and thus set it free, so that it may be surrounded by earth to induce it to form roots.

By decree of the 23rd of May 1907, the radius of the circle within which claims may be pegged is 2 kilometres (14 m.), and a tax of 5% is levied on the value of the gold extracted.

There must, however, be a joint at the underground part where it is to be tongued and pegged, and at least one sound bud in each exposed part, from which a shoot may be developed to form the top of the young plant.