Pecker

/ˈpɛkə(ɹ)/ · noun

Meaning

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:.

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:
2. (UK colloquial, by extension of the sense ‘beak’) A nose.
3. (UK colloquial, by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.
4. (chiefly in the plural, derogatory slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
5. (chiefly in the plural, derogatory slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
6. (US) Clipping of peckerhead (“an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads”).

Example Sentences

Two studies of British civil servants, for example, suggest that those at the top of the heap are less stressed than those near the bottom. Work on other species, too, indicates that when it comes to pecking orders, the peckees are more stressed than the peckers.

Mr. King... misstated the fact in saying that he had put a piece of lighted paper to the master's nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper's nostrils, at the same time crying: Come, old chap, keep your pecker up.

Pecker, ‘keep your Pecker up’,... literally, keep your beak and head well up, ‘never say die’.

Be firm, my moral pecker.

... he had every facility given him to remain under lock and key, with a chair, a table, a mattress in a corner, and a litter of fallen plaster on the floor, in an irrational state of funk, and keeping up his pecker with such tonics as Mariani dispensed.

Fred and I managed to keep our peckers up somehow.

These peckers know that as well as me.

Those cats wouldn't let us get five feet from the Y.M.C.A. Like real peckers, they'd say, ‘If I had you down South.’

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