| 1. | the mischievous boy in a series of newspaper stories and collected volumes by the American newspaperman and humorist George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916). |
| 2. | Usually, Peck's bad boy.
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Peck's bad boy  (pěks)  n. A person whose bad behavior embarrasses and annoys others. [After Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, by George Wilbur Peck (1840-1916), American writer.] |