AfterPeck's Bad Boy, a character created by George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916).
Peck'sbad boy (pluralPeck's bad boys)
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1885, Horace Smith Fulkerson,Random Recollections of Early Days in Mississippi, page80: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 aPeck'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 aPeck's bad boy.
