peg out
Verb
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Verb
peg out
- (transitive) To mark (a territory or area) with pegs. [from 19th c.]
- (slang, intransitive) To die. [from 19th c.]
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 64:
- I don't know what they went to ask her for; but Percy and Harold didn't peg out.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 64:
- (croquet, intransitive) To finish a game of croquet. [from 19th c.]
- (cribbage) To move one's peg to the last position on the pegboard, and thus win. [from 19th c.]
- (transitive) To hang up (washing) using pegs. [from 20th c.]
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