Meaning

1 senses

  1. (informal)To induce or influence one's peers.

    He was peer-pressured into taking drugs.

Examples

18 sentences

  1. Peer pressure never worked on Tom.

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  2. Peer pressure is a powerful thing.

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  3. I blame this problem on peer pressure.

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  4. You need to learn to resist peer pressure.

    deDu mußt lernen, dich Gruppenzwang zu widersetzen.

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  5. Children need to be taught to resist peer pressure.

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Origin

From peer + pressure. First use appears c. 1957 in the publications of Ruth Strang.

From peer + pressure. First use appears c. 1957 in the publications of Ruth Strang.

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Forms

peer pressures, peer pressuring, peer pressured, peer pressured
Base formpeer pressure · to peer pressure
3rd person singularpeer pressures
Present participlepeer pressuring
Past simplepeer pressured
Past participlepeer pressured

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypeer pressure
he, she, itpeer pressures

Past simpleLesson

all personspeer pressured

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave peer pressured
he, she, ithas peer pressured

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill peer pressure

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
peepB2peepholepeerB2peerlesspeevepegB2
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