Definition
To achieve the maximum level of something, to max out, to pull out all the stops.
In Context
- ""There will be plenty of time to cool off when you're dead, so you might as well peg your needle to the red.""
- ""Thus I suspected that a trip to Chelsea might peg the needle on the religious experience meter but if biodiesel one wanted, that is where one got it.""
- "2016, May 28, Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY Sports. "The returning talent figures to be pegging the needle on the hype meter once again.""