tent peg

tent peg (plural tent pegs)

1. A peg, driven into the ground, to hold a rope that supports a tent.

   Synonyms: spike, stake

   Upon arrival at the campsite, they discovered that they had forgotten the tent pegs; they had to use rocks and logs to tether the tent instead.

2. (Cockney rhyming slang) An egg.

• tent pegging

• Eric Partridge (2005) “tent peg”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1945.
• Jonathon Green (2024) “tent peg n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang