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Pete

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //piːt//

A diminutive of the male given name Peter.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Peter.

  2. 2

    slangA Peterbilt truck.

    Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin' logs. Cab-over Pete with a reefer on And a Jimmy haulin' hogs.

Forms

plural
Petes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).