"peg away" meaning in English

{
  "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": [
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep working at something"
      ],
      "id": "en-peg_away-en-verb-hgJOPs~6",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To keep working at something"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "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 with particle (away)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "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": "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}