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Pecker

Keep your pecker up. As the mouth is in the head, pecker (the mouth) means the head; and to “keep your pecker up,” means to keep your head up, or, more familiarly, “keep your tail up;” “never say die.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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