pecker
Americannoun
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a person or thing that pecks.
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a bird's bill.
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a woodpecker.
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Slang: Vulgar. penis.
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British Slang. one's spirits or courage.
noun
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slang spirits (esp in the phrase keep one's pecker up )
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informal short for woodpecker
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slang a slang word for penis
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Origin of pecker
Example Sentences
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"Thank you so much to everyone that has bought it - I hope you're having as much fun listening to it as I had making it. Keep your pecker up and all the very best."
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2014
The young ’un, despite this friendly advice, felt very far from keeping up his pecker.
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines
The natural home of Taxus—the Exchequer— Harbours a creature that keeps up its pecker.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891 by Various
All around reigned holy silence, Only heard there was the hammering Of the pecker on the pine-trees.
From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
"Them strangers an' grandpap an' Uncle Arch—an' another rock- pecker."
From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John
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