pecker
Americannoun
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peckers
plural
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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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Etymology
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
Keep your pecker up, James,' he added, in a tone which the patron and the bully spoke at once.
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by David Christie Murray
Keep your pecker up, old man, Georgie and I are both going to back you up.
From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
He's half a wife, yon pecker bill; A book and likewise preacher.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
He never bores a tree to get insects as his cousins do, for only when a nest must be chiseled out is he a wood pecker in the strict sense.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Neltje Blanchan
Concrete peckers will be used to take the old bridge away before the debris is removed and the new bridge will be wheeled down the motorway and fitted into place.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
A perennial headache is the exotic structures' attraction for curiosity seekers and peckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
She lingered uncertainly among complacent wood peckers from the north.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
It wasn't your fault, only your instinct, so I quite forgive you; but no wonder the peckers wear better than the pecked.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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