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