peg out

British  

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

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Example Sentences

By which he means that the history of people who like to peg out under the stars is studded with left-wingers, protofascists, survivalists, teetotallers, eugenicists, nudists, swingers, Quakers and pagans.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2011

At this juncture I opened my eyes, so he cheerfully remarked, in a strong twang known by some supercilious English as the "beastly colonial accent"— "So you didn't peg out after all!"

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles

"Roy O'Mara's bottomed on opal there ... got some pretty good colours, and we're goin' to peg out."

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

Umph, I don't know, but I guess if we do peg out, it'll be some considerable time before they can read the store account over us.

From The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas by Gaunt, Mary

Well, we've only got to squeeze in between any of them, on the lead we decide on, say Eureka, or Sailor's Gully, wherever there's room to peg out a claim and pitch a tent.

From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.