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peg top
1noun
a child's wooden top that spins on a metal peg.
peg tops, peg-top trousers.
peg-top
2[peg-top]
adjective
wide at the hips and narrowing to the ankle.
peg-top trousers; peg-top skirts.
peg top
1noun
a child's spinning top, usually made of wood with a metal centre pin
peg-top
2adjective
(of skirts, trousers, etc) wide at the hips then tapering off towards the ankle
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of peg top1
Example Sentences
Slowly at first and then with a rush she came about like a peg top.
There were large slabs of stone laid down in the yard, on which marbles were played with, and peg tops were spun.
A portly person, wearing, indeed, a frock coat, a sash, and peg top trousers, appeared in the doorway of the presidential mansion.
The cut of the trousers was somewhat along the lines of fifteen years before, with their peg tops and heavy cuffs.
It was Serozha's birthday, and he received many different gifts; peg tops, and hobby horses, and pictures.
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