What does peg away mean?

peg away means "work doggedly or persistently".

What is another word for peg away?

Close synonyms include plug away, slog, keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel. 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 away a common word?

peg away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

peg away — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
work doggedly or persistently
“She keeps plugging away at her dissertation”
Synonymsplug away slog keep one's nose to the grindstone keep one's shoulder to the wheel
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What does peg away mean?: peg away means "work doggedly or persistently".

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