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, 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 got near enough to his sisters to say: "Keep up your pecker, Pansy, for there won't be any Aberdeen about it."
From Crusoes of the Frozen North by Gordon Stables
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
Shields rode out and hunted in the morning without Suckcess he returned at 11 A.M. having killed only a black wood pecker with a red breast as discribed hereafter.
From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Meriwether Lewis
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
Sez Dick o’ Grate Beckers, just keep up yor peckers, Yo’ hevn’t much longer to wait, For blue milk an’ porridge, yo’ll get better forridge, Wen th’ railway gets fairly agait.
From Th' History o' Haworth Railway fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
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