Meaning & use
pegged
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Identified or classified someone or something in a fixed, often unfair or oversimplified, way.
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Teachers had pegged him as a troublemaker after just one bad week.
Critics pegged the film as a box-office disaster before it even opened.
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Pegged also has a distinct financial sense, describing a currency or price fixed relative to another value, as in "the currency is pegged to the dollar."
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2. adjective
Fixed or linked at a set rate or value relative to something else.
The country's currency has been pegged to the U.S. dollar for decades.
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