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Definition of "pecking" []

  • Present participle of peck. (verb)

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Use "pecking" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • ""Sixth, seventh and eighth grade is where what I call the pecking order starts to be established.""
  • ""Talons are for hunting, or for hunting & pecking" is fabulous!!"