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peg back

peg back verb: to equalize against; to prevent (the opposition) from winning.

Verb

peg back (third-person singular simple present pegs back, present participle pegging back, simple past and past participle pegged back)

  1. (transitive) To equalize against; to prevent (the opposition) from winning.
    • […] pegging back Head Play in the last few strides to win by a nose.1933, The New Yorker (volume 9, part 1, page 31)
    • After the hosts had been pegged back to 1-1 and seen Victor Obinna sent off for a crazy kick out at Sebastian Larsson, Cole bagged the winner with only 10 minutes left2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC

Forms of peg back

third-person singular presentpegs back
present participlepegging back
past participlepegged back
pastpegged back

Questions about peg back

What does peg back mean?
Peg back means to equalize against; to prevent (the opposition) from winning.
What part of speech is peg back?
Peg back is a verb.
What is the past tense of peg back?
The past tense of peg back is pegged back.

Words near peg back in the dictionary

  1. peficitinib
  2. pefloxacin
  3. pefurazoate
  4. peg
  5. peg away
  6. peg back
  7. peg boy
  8. peg boys
  9. peg dope
  10. peg down
  11. peg element

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