Usually means: Cylinder for hanging or fastening.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. peg: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. PEG, peg: Merriam-Webster
  3. PEG, peg, peg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peg: Collins English Dictionary
  6. peg: Vocabulary.com
  7. Peg, peg: Wordnik
  8. peg: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Peg, Peg, Peg, Peg, Peg: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. PEG, peg: Wiktionary
  11. peg: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. peg: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. peg: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. PEG: Dictionary.com
  15. peg (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. peg: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. PEG, Peg (song), Peg (unit), Peg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Peg: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. peg: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. peg: Rhymezone
  21. peg: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. peg: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Peg: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  24. PEG, Peg: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  25. peg: FreeDictionary.org
  26. peg: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. peg: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PEG: Health & Beauty Glossary

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. PEG: Moneyterms
  3. PEG: Investopedia
  4. PEG: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peg: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. PEG: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. PEG: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. PEG: UK Medical Acronyms
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. PEG: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. PEG: Medical dictionary
  10. All About Hepatitis C (No longer online)
  11. PEG: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. PEG: Acronym Finder
  3. PEG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. peg: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Peg: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. PEG: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  3. PEG, PEG: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. peg, peg, peg, peg, peg, peg, peg, peg, peg, peg, peg, peg, peg: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Peg: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Peg: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. P.E.G, The Peg: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peg: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Organic Salon Glossary (No longer online)
  3. PEG: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
noun:  A protrusion used to hang things on.
noun:  (figurative) A support; a reason; a pretext.
noun:  (cribbage) A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
noun:  (finance) A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
noun:  (UK) A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
noun:  A place formally allotted for fishing
noun:  (colloquial, dated) A leg or foot.
noun:  One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
noun:  A step; a degree.
noun:  (journalism) A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
noun:  (cricket, slang) A stump.
noun:  (slang) The penetration during anal sex using a strap-on dildo.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A serving of brandy and soda.
noun:  (India) A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A shilling.
noun:  (psychology) An easily recalled image that a person mentally visualizes with something else, in order to remember that other thing. See mnemonic peg system.
verb:  (transitive) To fasten using a peg.
verb:  (transitive) To affix or pin.
verb:  (transitive) To fix a value or price.
verb:  (transitive) To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To throw.
verb:  (transitive, kickball) To throw a ball at (someone), to hit (someone) with a ball.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To indicate or ascribe an attribute to.
verb:  (cribbage) To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
verb:  (slang, transitive) To engage in anal sex by penetrating with a strap-on dildo.
verb:  (intransitive) To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
verb:  (slang, archaic) To drink alcohol frequently, especially brandy and soda; to tipple.
verb:  (UK, slang, obsolete, transitive) To drive (a hackney carriage).
noun:  Ellipsis of clothes peg. [(British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) An object (usually made of wood or plastic) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry.]
noun:  A female given name. [A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.]
noun:  Clipping of Peggy. [A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.]
noun:  (Canada, slang) Abbreviation of the city of Winnipeg. Usually preceded by "the".
noun:  (chemistry) Acronym of polyethylene glycol. [(chemistry) Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of general formula [CH₂-CH₂-O]ₙ, used in detergents and as emulsifiers and plasticizers.]
noun:  (medicine, countable) Initialism of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
noun:  Initialism of price/earnings to growth.
noun:  (uncountable) Initialism of public, educational, and government (access television). [(countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.]
noun:  (computer science, countable) Initialism of parsing expression grammar.
noun:  Abbreviation of pyroelectric generator.

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