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Peck's Bad Boy

noun

the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
Usually Peck's bad boy.
  1. any mischievous boy.
  2. a recalcitrant person or organization.

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Words nearby Peck's Bad Boy

pecker, peckerwood, pecking order, Peckinpah, peckish, Peck's Bad Boy, pecksniff, Pecksniffian, pecky, Pecorino, Pecos
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