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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
30-Sep-03 - 09:07 PM
Thread Name: meaning of maritime term 'off the peg'
Subject: RE: meaning of maritime term 'off the peg'
Late 18th-early 19th c. slang, from a Dictionary of Buckish Slang, etc., 1811:

Gone to Peg Trantrum's - dead.

Peg- a blow with a straight arm; a blow

and others-

Peggo- the penis