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Peck's bad boy, phr. U.S. slang.
The name of a fictional character created by George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916) used allusively of an unruly or mischievous child. Also attrib. or as adj.
1883Peck's Sun 14 July 1/6 The [cuff] buttons are..gold..and on the back they are engraved ‘Geo. W. Peck, Milwaukee, from his newsboy friends of Chicago’, and on top of the Russia leather case are the words, ‘From Peck's Bad Boys’. 1933E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! i. 19 Sid Davis, his brother-in-law, is forty-five, short and fat, bald-headed, with the Puckish face of a Peck's Bad Boy who has never grown up. 1946True Apr. 34/1 Insulting the advertisers has become Big Business with the Peck's Bad Boy of Radio. 1967Atlantic Monthly Feb. 4 [Governor George] Wallace's motives—ego, a Peck's-bad-boy desire to make trouble, a yen to see just what would happen if a presidential election were thrown into the House of Representatives, or a combination of all these—do not actually matter. 1970Time 22 June 78/2 The book is an earnest effort by Della Femina to buttress his reputation as the Peck's Bad Boy of Advertising. 1977Redbook Mar. 226/3 ‘I'm going to be forty years old.’ He laughs with disbelief. ‘It blows my mind.’ Yet he sounds curiously unchanged, still the exuberant Peck's Bad Boy of whatever revolution comes to hand, still taunting the establishment. 1977Time 19 Sept. 56/1 Now, in an attempt to break the longest winning streak in modern sports history, a new challenger from Down Under named Australia is squaring off with the 1974 U.S. defender, Courageous, skippered by Turner—the Peck's Bad Boy of yachting—in the waters off Newport, R.I. |