off-the-peg
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of off-the-peg
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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The 21st century has seen a trend for pads, fillers, and surgery to enlarge lips, breasts, and buttocks, but we don’t yet have off-the-peg belly pads as they did in 1793.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
Her research is housed in a series of three charming little timber-framed houses with ornamental rooftops, available to buy off-the-peg in Bangladesh, designed to be disassembled and moved on a truck at a moment’s notice.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2019
It fit, though not meaningfully better than an off-the-peg one that had been altered.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2016
The series of off-the-peg glass office buildings located on an upmarket industrial park belie the exotic endeavours that take place within.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2014
Even the nearest drug store, wary of that row of the transient hat-on-the-peg, off-the-peg, would deliver to No. 28 a mustard plaster or a deck of cards and charge without question.
From The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst
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