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pecs

UK/pɛks/

pecs is the plural of pec.

Meaning of pec

Noun (1)

pec (plural pecs)

  1. (colloquial, plural-normally) The pectoralis major muscle.
    • He's flexing his pecs at anyone who'll look.

Noun (2)

pec (uncountable)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang, Eton College) Money.

See all 3 meanings of pec

Proper noun capitalized: PECS

PECS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of picture exchange communication system.
    • Sandra had two boys in the autism class. Arriving to the school, one of her sons was non-verbal; he had been trained to communicate using the picture exchange communication system (PECS). […] Her son lost his PECS skills. She was also upset to learn that her son had been placed in a personalised...2022 September 12, Jennifer Morgan, “An autism class opens. What happens then?”, in Irish Examiner

Words that rhyme with pecs

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Questions about pecs

What is pecs the plural of?
Pecs is the plural of pec.
What part of speech is pecs?
Pecs is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pecs?
Pecs is pronounced /pɛks/ (UK).

Words near pecs in the dictionary

  1. Pecors
  2. Pecos
  3. Pecos County
  4. PECOTA
  5. PECR
  6. pecs
  7. pectase
  8. pectases
  9. pectate
  10. pectate lyase
  11. pectatelyase

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pecs (page history and authors); PECS (page history and authors); pec (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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