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.

any mischievous boy.
a recalcitrant person or organization.

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