peg out

verb

1. informal.
   intr to collapse or die
2. croquet
   1. intr to win a game by hitting the peg
   2. tr to cause (an opponent's ball) to hit the peg, rendering it out of the game
3. intr cribbage to score the point that wins the game
4. tr to mark or secure with pegs

   to peg out one's claims to a piece of land

Example Sentences

To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.

From The Daily Beast

I cut a beautiful peg out of hard wood—one of those sharp, slender pegs that will go through anything but a stone.

From Project Gutenberg

It was only a dull curiosity that turned him round at last to see what it was that made the Colonel peg out this time.

From Project Gutenberg

And the natives often peg out a cock and surround him with snares to catch the wild birds which come to attack him.

From Project Gutenberg

No, I prefer putting a bullet through my brains in the Legion to returning to my country and then having to peg out.

From Project Gutenberg

Herewith the good Mistris begins to get a drift, and away she goes with Peg out of dores.

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