Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
place-brick . - noun plural Pieces pecked or knocked off.
- noun The sport of throwing pebbles at birds to bring them down.
- noun They crossed a road soon afterwards, and there close to them lay a heap of charming pebbles. “Look here,” shouted East, “here's luck! I've been longing for some good honest pecking this half-hour. Let's fill the bags, and have no more of this foozling bird's-nesting.”
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- verb Present participle of
peck .
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Examples
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I’m probably not unique in making this mistake, but in modern American middle-class experience one hears the term pecking order and one reflexively locates oneself right smack, well, in the middle.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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I’m probably not unique in making this mistake, but in modern American middle-class experience one hears the term pecking order and one reflexively locates oneself right smack, well, in the middle.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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I’m probably not unique in making this mistake, but in modern American middle-class experience one hears the term pecking order and one reflexively locates oneself right smack, well, in the middle.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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I’m probably not unique in making this mistake, but in modern American middle-class experience one hears the term pecking order and one reflexively locates oneself right smack, well, in the middle.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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"Sixth, seventh and eighth grade is where what I call the pecking order starts to be established."
unknown title 2009
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"Talons are for hunting, or for hunting & pecking" is fabulous!!
Salty! Jessica Hagy 2006
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So when birds begin pecking out the hero’s eyes in Anansi Boys, it comes as a surprise when you start to laugh.
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At the top of this designation pecking order is the CFP designation.
Brewed Fresh Daily AKA The BFD Blog Frank Revy 2009
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What kind of pecking order rules apply when FOX anchors and pundits fight over who gets to smell her chair first after an appearence?
Think Progress » Fox News VP: We ‘hope’ Palin will be ‘polarizing’ as a Fox News contributor. 2010
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I think show business is ideally suited for heterosexuals, it's a very heterosexual business, it's run mostly by heterosexual men, and there's a kind of pecking order.
DISSED Jordan Zakarin 2010
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