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pegs

/pɛɡz/

pegs is the plural of peg.

pegs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of peg.

Noun (1)

pegs pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) peg-top trousers
    • Since then, he's been a suedehead and a soul-boy. "I used to go down the discos, wear pegs and American bowling shirts."1982, Paul Barker, The Other Britain: A New Society Collection
  2. (plural, plural-only, slang) The stumps.

Meaning of peg

Noun

peg (plural pegs)

  1. A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
  2. A protrusion used to hang things on.
    • Hang your coat on the peg and come in.
  3. (figuratively) A support; a reason; a pretext.
    • a peg to hang a claim upon
  4. (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
  5. A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
    • The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.2022, Simon Dingle, Steven Boykey Sidley, chapter 7, in Beyond Bitcoin, Icon Books, →ISBN
  6. (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
    • This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink.1898, unknown author, Harper's Magazine
    Synonyms:
    shot

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Noun (2) capitalized: PEGs

PEGs

  1. (plural) plural of PEG

Phrases with pegs

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Words that rhyme with pegs

Questions about pegs

What does pegs mean?
Pegs means peg-top trousers.
What is pegs the plural of?
Pegs is the plural of peg.
What part of speech is pegs?
Pegs is a noun.
How do you pronounce pegs?
Pegs is pronounced /pɛɡz/.

Words near pegs in the dictionary

  1. Pegrams
  2. pegRNA
  3. pegRNAs
  4. pegroots
  5. Pegrum
  6. pegs
  7. pegs away
  8. pegs back
  9. pegs down
  10. pegs it
  11. pegs out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pegs (page history and authors); PEGs (page history and authors); peg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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