Re: Colloquial (Irish) English: "Peg it" = "run away"?

I read in sci.lang.translation that Edward Hennessey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
atl.earthlink.net>) about 'Colloquial (Irish) English: "Peg it" = "run
away"?', on Sun, 30 Nov 2003:
>Tron:
>
>This following URL
>http://bsd.kam.pl/~swlasik/linguist/slang.php?dzial=p
>says
>peg-it  Verb. 1. To run, usually implying a sense or urgency, such as
>hurriedly.
>2. To die. [Northern/Scottish use]
>
>Number one sounds appropriate to your context.
>
In southern England, the 'to die' version is rendered as 'to peg out'.
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