Definitions for peg-top

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IPA: /ˈpɛgˌtɒp/

Peg-Top is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in peg-top (-egoppt).

Definitions for peg-top

noun

  1. a child's wooden top that spins on a metal peg.
  2. peg tops, peg-top trousers.

adjective

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

Origin of peg-top

1860-65; adjective use of peg top (in the sense “a child's toy that spins on a peg”)

Examples for peg-top

Observe also that the grub's pottery is shaped like the legs of our peg-top trousers and is wider inside than at the opening.

This bulge he shaped and smoothed very carefully with his knife, so that it was in the form of a peg-top.

These proved to be a peg-top, a bunch of string, a small rubber ball and a golden peach-pit.

Mayakin spoke fast, whirling like a peg-top amid the crowd of people.

The adjoining figure (Fig. 101) gives a view of the peg-top.

My head do turn round, just for all the world like a peg-top.

The child who was spinning a peg-top in the street was simply dressed in a short-skirted cotehardie.

This was the one with the biggest check of all, and with the peggiest of peg-top trousers.

"I'll stay at home with peg-top," he said, in his slow, distinct way.

It spins to brave music, this peg-top, but its metier is to spin.

Word Value for peg-top
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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