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pecker

/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:
  2. (by extension of the sense ‘beak’) A nose.
  3. (by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.
  4. (chiefly in the plural) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
  5. (chiefly in the plural) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
  6. A dickhead: an unpleasant, stupid or mean person.
  7. An electric motor's terminal connection or wiring box.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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