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• peg top
  peg top

  noun

  a child's wooden top that spins on a metal peg.
• peg-top
  peg-top

  adjective

  wide at the hips and narrowing to the ankle.

peg top

¹ American  

noun

1. a child's wooden top that spins on a metal peg.

2. peg tops, peg-top trousers.

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peg-top ² American  

[peg-top] / ˈpɛgˌtɒp /

adjective

1. wide at the hips and narrowing to the ankle.

   peg-top trousers; peg-top skirts.

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peg top ¹ British  

noun

1. a child's spinning top, usually made of wood with a metal centre pin

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peg-top ² British  

adjective

1. (of skirts, trousers, etc) wide at the hips then tapering off towards the ankle

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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

Like the humming of a peg top is Count Keyserling's conversation.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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)

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