The word "pegs" is correct in written English.
It can be used to refer to small cylindrical objects used for holding things in place or as a metaphor for categorizing or organizing.
Example: "She hung her coat on the pegs by the door."
Alternatives: "hooks" or "fasteners."
"Nothing will ever be as easy as your school years," well-meaning adults have told her, but I know for my daughter, and for many others who have struggled as square pegs trying to make themselves round, this is dead wrong.
Considering most everyone pegs Ohio as the state most likely to determine the winner of the electoral college, the gap between the national and Ohio polls would indicate an historically larger than normal split between the electoral and popular vote.
Labour voters also must make painful sacrifices: in those crucial Lib Dem seats Cameron needs, double the nose pegs and lend your vote to the yellows again.
The rope is clipped into pegs or chocks in the rock only for the purpose of arresting a fall.
Here I would have to figure out a way to secure my tent pegs in the sand.
Firing balls into a screen of pegs to make the orange ones disappear sounds simple, but there's plenty of strategy involved.
Here is one of the historic pegs of the sport – ball, bat, stumps, umpire – reduced to the status of gooseberry, a branded hanger-on, a mobile hatstand.
Most abandoned hard-currency pegs, smoothing their adjustment to shifting capital flows, and many accumulated large stocks of foreign-exchange reserves.
European economies quickly moved to build a new managed-rate system, while many emerging economies used pegs to anchor domestic monetary policy.
Now Mr Owens stands accused of trying to destroy one of the right's proudest achievements: Colorado's influential "taxpayer's bill of rights" (TABOR), which has returned some $3.2 billion to taxpayers over the past 13 years.TABOR, which was passed by voters in 1992, pegs government spending to the growth in population and consumer prices, and gives any surplus revenue back to the voters.
That, too, ended unhappily in 1992.Such failures gave birth to a different idea: that monetary authorities should forget the money-supply numbers, unhook themselves from exchange-rate pegs, and take aim at inflation itself.
