"peg it" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-peg it.ogg [Australia] Forms: pegs it [present, singular, third-person], pegging it [participle, present], pegged it [participle, past], pegged it [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} peg it (third-person singular simple present pegs it, present participle pegging it, simple past and past participle pegged it)
  1. (slang) To run away; to leg it; to scarper. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-peg_it-en-verb-ke5VC-9b Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it" Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of English terms with placeholder "it": 79 21
  2. (slang) To die. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-peg_it-en-verb-jx6TKsZL

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for peg it meaning in English (1.5kB)

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