Usually means: Hierarchy established through social dominance.
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  1. pecking order: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pecking order: Merriam-Webster
  3. pecking order: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pecking order: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pecking order: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pecking order: Vocabulary.com
  7. pecking order: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pecking order: Wiktionary
  9. pecking order: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pecking order: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pecking order: Dictionary.com
  12. Pecking Order (game), Pecking order (disambiguation), Pecking order: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. pecking order: Rhymezone
  14. pecking order: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pecking order: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. pecking order: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. Pecking-order: Legal dictionary

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  1. Pecking-order, pecking order: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pecking order: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Pecking-order, pecking order: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pecking order: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pecking_orders as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pecking order)

noun:  (zoology) The natural hierarchy of social status and dominance occurring in a group of birds.
noun:  The usually informal hierarchy of authority or command, often partial or approximate, as determined by the especially natural propensity for domination of different members of a specific group over each other, such as older brothers and sisters over their younger siblings.

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