A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
A less risky method is to lift your whisk or beater to check the condition of the peaks of the egg whites; the foam should be just stiff enough to stand up in well-defined, unwavering peaks.
Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
To become sick or wan.
Misspelling of pique.
At the greatest extent; maximum.
peak oil, Peak TV
Maximal, quintessential, archetypical, strictly with positive connotations; representing the culmination of its type.
Knowing obscure 19th-century slang is peak nerd.
A surname.
From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinna...
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