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Peck's bad boy en · NOUN

Etymology

After Peck's Bad Boy, a character created by George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).

Meanings

1. A mean-spirited young prankster.
   • Bucky had a reputation around his Hughestown neighborhood, too, where the adults thought of Bucky as something of a Peck's bad boy. 2011, Jack Smiles, Bucky Harris: A Biography of Baseball's Boy Wonder, page 7:
   • I was not "a character" in any sense, could not have been the original of any sensational story from the best boy in Sunday school to a Peck's bad boy. 1885, Horace Smith Fulkerson, Random Recollections of Early Days in Mississippi, page 80:

Forms

wikipedia: Peck's Bad Boy