peg top
noun
a child's wooden top that spins on a metal peg.
peg top
1 Americannoun
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a child's wooden top that spins on a metal peg.
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peg tops, peg-top trousers.
peg-top
2
American
[peg-top]
/ ˈpɛgˌtɒp /
adjective
peg top
1
British
noun
peg-top
2
British
adjective
Etymology
Origin of peg top1
First recorded in 1650–60
Origin of peg-top2
1860–65; adjective use of peg top (in the sense “a child's toy that spins on a peg”)
Example Sentences
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Like the humming of a peg top is Count Keyserling's conversation.
From Time Magazine Archive
A portly person, wearing, indeed, a frock coat, a sash, and peg top trousers, appeared in the doorway of the presidential mansion.
From A Son of the Immortals by Christy, Howard Chandler
These proved to be a peg top, a bunch of string, a small rubber ball and a golden peach pit.
From The Lost Princess of Oz by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
Slowly at first and then with a rush she came about like a peg top.
From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by Barnes, James
In his senior year, Louis Johnson strolled beside the serpentine walks, a mandolin tucked casually under his arm, hatless and sporting the latest in peg-top trousers, the biggest man on campus.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was the squarejawed, peg-top hero who resembled models of elegance of the Sears-Roebuck Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
They dressed alike, in the most exaggerated and outlandish costume they could afford: knee-length coats, peg-top trousers, yard-long watch chains, "ducktail" haircuts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bergdorf Goodman: pre-1914 tendencies with silhouettes narrowing at bottom, peg-top evening skirts, slim skirts slit to the knee, and a general up-in-front, down-in-back movement.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can see it spinning round like a peg-top, in the middle of the river.
From History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians by Summers, Thomas O. (Thomas Osmond)
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