Sentence examples for the pecker from inspiring English sources

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the pecker

noun

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

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The pecker knew her secrets.

She wondered if her mother took narcotics so as not to face up to which body the pecker really wanted.

She couldn't go to the authorities, because Horst would tell them about the drugs and they'd put her mother in jail and leave her alone with the pecker.

I know I put the pecker to you, man, but I ain't had a beer in three days, and I won't sleep until we're completely squared away.

"Our medical corpsman, also known as 'Doc the pecker checker,' conspired to have me ousted from the service through a medical discharge," he later wrote.

They mostly boil down to inter-male rivalries and hierarchies of masculinity – the pecker pecking order, if you will: the bigger the mister, the bigger the man.

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This may sound like some perfunctory keep-the-pecker-up stuff from a former military man.

Roll out the pecker-picker.

Estimating a breeding value for the pecker-effect is less accurate than using behavioural observations but, in animal breeding, it is not feasible to record a behavioural observation for each individual but it is possible to estimate DGE and IGE for each individual.

The aim of this study was to detect differences between pecker and receiver animals, and we assumed that the peckers were the aggressive animals and the receivers were the submissive animals or victims.

This allowed the animals to be categorized into a group of 'pure' peckers and a group of 'pure' receivers (victims), which may show the difference between the peckers (P) and receivers (R).

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