"peg away" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pegs away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pegging away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pegged away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pegged away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "peg away (third-person singular simple present pegs away, present participle pegging away, simple past and past participle pegged away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, in Of Human Bondage:",
          "text": "‘Art's the only thing I care for, I'm willing to give my whole life to it. It's only a question of sticking to it and pegging away.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 296:",
          "text": "In very rare cases, when the matrix just goes on pegging away automatically, the doctor can take advantage of that and ease out the second brat who then can be considered to be, say, three minutes younger [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep working (at something)."
      ],
      "id": "en-peg_away-en-verb-y9MtLhRZ",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To keep working (at something)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart hastily; peg it; scram."
      ],
      "id": "en-peg_away-en-verb-eJKccnE1",
      "links": [
        [
          "peg it",
          "peg it"
        ],
        [
          "scram",
          "scram"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, archaic) To depart hastily; peg it; scram."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "peg away"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pegs away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pegging away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pegged away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pegged away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "peg away (third-person singular simple present pegs away, present participle pegging away, simple past and past participle pegged away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 37, in Of Human Bondage:",
          "text": "‘Art's the only thing I care for, I'm willing to give my whole life to it. It's only a question of sticking to it and pegging away.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 296:",
          "text": "In very rare cases, when the matrix just goes on pegging away automatically, the doctor can take advantage of that and ease out the second brat who then can be considered to be, say, three minutes younger [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep working (at something)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To keep working (at something)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart hastily; peg it; scram."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "peg it",
          "peg it"
        ],
        [
          "scram",
          "scram"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, archaic) To depart hastily; peg it; scram."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "peg away"
}