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pegged (away)verbpast tense of peg (away) to devote serious and sustained effortthe writer pegged away at his first novel for three years before he felt that it was ready to be published banged away, beavered (away), drudged, dug (away), endeavored, fagged, grubbed, humped, hustled, labored, moiled, plodded, plowed, plugged, slaved, slogged, strained, strove(also strived), struggled, sweat(or sweated), toiled, travailed, tugged, worked(or wrought) applied (oneself), buckled (down), dug in, hammered (away), knuckled down, pitched inattacked, droveessayed, triedexercised, exerted, overexerted, overworkedeked out, ground (out), put out, scrabbled, scratchedtrudged, waded sweat blood(or sweated blood) broke, eased (up), let up, slackenedbummed, chilled, dallied, dillydallied, footled, goldbricked, goofed (off), hacked (around), hung (around or out)(also hanged (around or out)), idled, lazed, loafed, lounged, shirked, slacked (off), vegged outbasked, lolled, relaxed, reposed, rested, unwounddabbled, doodled, fooled around, fribbled, goofed (around), hung(also hanged), hung about(British), messed around, monkeyed (around), played, pottered (around), puttered (around), trifled |