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- noun Plural form of
pegger .
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Examples
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I switched to cotton pants called peggers, because I had vowed to grow up and abandon jeans.
Born Standing Up Steve Martin 2007
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The debate pits "peggers," who believe Hong Kong will maintain the peg, against "floaters," who believe the currency someday will be delinked from the U.S. dollar.
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Thanks to this new version of competitive currency manipulation, the dollar-peggers racked up gargantuan trade surpluses.
A 21st-Century Bretton Woods Sebastian Mallaby 2008
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Tiwánas, Ghebas, and Johdras, who are fine horsemen and expert tent-peggers, not "tall heavy men without any natural aptitude for horsemanship," as Sir Herbert Risley described his typical Panjábí (p. 59 of his book).
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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"I am a pegger, and the squire has introduced a pegging machine, so he has discharged all the peggers."
Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret Horatio Alger 1865
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"All the peggers are to be discharged; you and I, and the two other boys."
Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret Horatio Alger 1865
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Other and wiser men stepped on to their ground while they were absent, commenced at once to work vigorously, and the original peggers, when they returned, were unable to dislodge them.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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So it starts out with the wedding ... then the honeymoon ... then bella being peggers ... birth of
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So it starts out with the wedding ... then the honeymoon ... then bella being peggers ... birth of
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Gibson is lending his name to a contest for an $1,100 snow blower 'peggers can win if they pledge to keep their sidewalks and stairs clear of snow and ice.
Winnipeg Sun 2010
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