Peg

Hang your coat on the peg and come in.

a peg to hang a claim upon

The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.

This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink.

The name had come to mean any aromatic essence of herbs by the time the first thirsty colonial poured a peg of Who-shot-John into his mint water.

"Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."

O, you are well tuned now! / But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, / As honest as I am.

Did we form ourselves, choosing, and our powers? I find myself, for one, as a stringed instrument with chords and stops - but I have no power to turn the pegs, or pitch my thoughts to a higher or lower key.

to screw papal authority to the highest peg

We still have worsted all your holy tricks; / Trepann'd your party with intrigue, / And took your grandees down a peg[…]

[…] all news media keep a supply of features on hand, waiting for a peg to make them topical.

Journalists and prospective sources wishing to attract their attention are constantly on the lookout for pegs. The process by which a peg is identified is informed by news values.

Lindy hit the pegs with five deliveries out of six.

Get your strap-on out and give me a nice peg!

I then ordered a "peg" (brandy-and-soda) to be brought to my tent, and returned to have a smoke before turning in again.

This is the sort of drinking that Anna Hazare fought to eradicate from Ralegan Siddhi, as Colonel Phatak explained, after I joked about an army man needing his evening peg of whisky before dinner.

The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.

To remember this list of early psychologists, you recall each peg along with its image of an early psychologist that you placed there.

Multiple items can be stored at each location or with each peg.

Let's peg the rug to the floor.

I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board.

She lunged forward and pegged him to the wall.

China's currency is no longer pegged to the American dollar.

Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.

He's been pegged as a suspect.

I pegged his weight at 165.

1997 page 84 of Patriot Gambit by Don Pendletone Bolan pegged his weight somewhere around 150 pounds. If he was armed, the weapon wasn't showing. Still, the Executioner would take no chances.

She pegged twelve points.

We pegged the speedometer across the flats.

When you're pegging him and he gets close to orgasm, you'll observe a number of physical signs […]

For more than the period of his splendid service in India, which the country was not slow to acknowledge, the Volunteers had kept pegging at it, despite all the official obstacles thrown in the way […]

I was pegging a hack when the horse started limping. I got down to see if he'd picked up a stone and he lashed out at me.

I just got back from the Peg.

This is a form of grammar called a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG). PEGs use a different form of grammar which can handle most context-free situations and some context-sensitive ones.