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pegging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pegging \Peg"ging\, n. The act or process of fastening with pegs.
Peg \Peg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pegged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pegging.]
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To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails.
--Shak. (Cribbage) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The activity of artificial climbing on crags and in quarries outside the main mountain areas.{{quote-book|year=1965|author=(w: Alan Blackshaw)|chapter=Chapter 9. Artificial climbing ('pegging')|title=Mountaineering: From Hill Walking to Alpine Climbing|page=248|publisher=Penguin Books|passage=This chapter describes the extra equipment and special techniques needed for artificial climbing. As noted in § 34, 2, this form of climbing has been developed in this country on limestone crags and gritstone quarries outside the main mountain areas.}} 2 The act of rectal penetration of a man by a woman wearing a strap-on dildo.The term was popularized when it became in the "(w: Savage Love)" sex advice column in 2001. vb. (present participle of peg English)
WordNet
n. a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface [syn: nog]
small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. [syn: pin]
informal terms of the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks" [syn: pin, stick]
a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg [syn: wooden leg, leg, pegleg]
regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing [syn: pin, thole, tholepin, rowlock, oarlock]
v. succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" [syn: nail down, nail]
pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into into
fasten or secure with a wooden pin; "peg a tent" [syn: peg down]
stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations; "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar"
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Wikipedia
Pegging may refer to:
- Pegging (sexual practice)
- Pegging (cribbage)
- Pegging report, a manufacturing record
- Pegged pants
- The act of setting a fixed exchange rate between two currencies
Pegging is a sexual practice in which a woman performs anal sex on a man by penetrating the man's anus with a strap-on dildo. This practice may also involve stimulating the male genitalia.
The neologism "pegging" was popularized when it became the winning entry in a contest in Dan Savage's " Savage Love" sex advice column, held after an observation was made that there was no common name or dictionary definition for the act in the English language.These three links chronicle how the term pegging came into usage.
- Let's Vote, May 24, 2001
- Count Every Vote, June 7, 2001
- We Have a Winner!, June 21, 2001
Usage examples of "pegging".
The blockader that fired that shot must have got a sight at the steamer, and she is still pegging away at her.
Only we will beat the code out of them, and use it to keep Wardhouse pegging away.
Beside her Marie Bain was slowly pegging out several tent-like black corsets and shrunken stripy stockings, the cooks body language clearly indicating that she regarded guest laundry as a task not within her job description.
She had made a rough attempt to scrape and tan the hide of one of the rabbits Ash brought home, soaking it in ashes and water and then stretching and pegging it.
A shoemaker pegging at his last, a blastman seen through a narrow window in some basement where iron was being melted, a bench-worker seen high aloft in some window, his coat off, his sleeves rolled up.
I have identified the cankerworm that's pegging away at YOUR vitals, and it's envy, Thomas.
We never saw the Heartsease again though we kept pegging away with all the sails she could bear, pumping all day and most of the night.
I represent an Intelligence service whose present interests happen to line up with yours and if you want me to co-operate it's got to be level pegging and if you think I'm going to start by licking your boots you've got another think coming.
And now, within a mere fifty minutes or so, they were level pegging, five games all, and Ed was serving again.
Abraham Abrahams had instructed Centaine in every aspect of pegging a mining claim.
The June sun was still high in the sky, and in the sun-filled court below, a monstrous woman, solid as a Norman pillar, with brawny red forearms and a sacking apron strapped about her middle, was stumping to and fro between a washtub and a clothes line, pegging out a series of square white things which Winston recognized as babies' diapers.
Ash supposed the flat sections had been used for pegging out tanned skins to dry.
I recall that Caprice tossed her sabre into the lake as she turned and ran towards me, calling something in French that I couldn't make out, and her running shape blurred to a shadow with the light failing behind it, and as the shadow stooped above me the light went out altogether and in the darkness an arm was round my shoulders and fingers were brushing my brow and my face was buried between her bosoms, and my last conscious thought was not of going to find the Great Perhaps, but rather what infernally bad luck to be pegging out at such a moment.
I'm ashamed to confess that the first I knew about it was seeing the poor, dear woman sitting on a chair gasping for breath and then pegging out.
He ran with shortlegged, pegging steps for the green coupé, dived into it.