Peck's bad boyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Peck's bad boy (複数形 Peck's bad boys)

1. A mean-spirited young prankster.
   • 1885, Horace Smith Fulkerson, Random Recollections of Early Days in Mississippi (page 80)

     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.

   • 2011, Jack Smiles, Bucky Harris: A Biography of Baseball's Boy Wonder (page 7)

     Bucky had a reputation around his Hughestown neighborhood, too, where the adults thought of Bucky as something of a Peck's bad boy.