Pegging

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The term pegging, derived from the verb "to peg" (to hold stable or fixed), has multiple definitions when used alone.

• As a financial term, pegging refers to when a country fixes the exchange rate between its currency and another country's, or to fix wages at a set rate. This is by far the most common use of the term.
• As in gardening (or similarly), pegging is used to describe affixing something (such as a growing plant, or hanging laundry) to a peg, stake, or line for stability. This is the second most common use of the term.
• As a mnemonic term, pegging is the use of a specific technique to help remember lists.
• As a sexual term, pegging is a neologism referring to a woman using a strap-on dildo to penetrate a man's anus, and may sometimes be used for female-female strap-on anal sex.
• In cribbage, pegging is the same as scoring, and refers to the use of pegs to keep score; pegging out is to win the game.
• In clockmaking, pegging out can also refer to putting a sharpened piece of pegwood in to a clock plate hole and rotate to clean the hole.
• In sport, pegging is the act of attaching a peg to a person's clothing. It is often used by groups of people as a bonding activity, but can sometimes be used maliciously to single people out.
• In manufacturing, pegging means to assign raw materials to production job.
• In video game communities, the word pegging is occasionally used to refer to the successful deployment of "sticky" weapons which attach themselves to opposing players, such as the plasma grenade from Halo: Combat Evolved.