peg

1. 1.

   succeed in obtaining a position

   “He nailed down a spot at Harvard”

   Synonymsnail downnail

   Broadersucceed
2. 2.

   pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into

   Broaderpierce
3. 3.

   fasten or secure with a wooden pin

   “peg a tent”

   Synonymspeg down

   Broaderattach
4. 4.

   stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations

   “The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar”

   Broaderstabilize

Other forms of peg

plural

pegs·

past tense or participle

pegged

present participle

pegging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about peg

What does peg mean?

peg means "a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peg?

peg has 1 syllable: peg. In IPA it is /ˈpɛɡ/.

What is another word for peg?

Close synonyms include nog, pin, pin, stick, wooden leg. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peg a common word?

peg is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with peg?

1 word rhymes with peg. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.