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English
Noun
tent peg (plural tent pegs)
- A peg, driven into the ground, to hold a rope that supports a tent.
- Synonyms: spike, stake
Upon arrival at the campsite, they discovered that they had forgotten the tent pegs; they had to use rocks and logs to tether the tent instead.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) An egg.
Derived terms
Translations
peg, to hold a rope that supports a tent
Further reading
- Eric Partridge (2005) “tent peg”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1945.
- “tent peg n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present