"Pete" meaning in English

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          "word": "Black Pete"
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          "word": "for Pete's sake"
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          "word": "honest to Pete"
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          "word": "Pete Tong"
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          "word": "Petey"
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          "word": "Platitude Pete"
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          "word": "seven-toed Pete"
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          "word": "sneaky Pete"
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          "ref": "2004, Allan Guthrie, “11:15 am”, in Two-Way Split, Holicong, Pa.: PointBlank, →ISBN, part 1, page 28:",
          "text": "“Where’s Pete?” Pearce asked him. / “Pete?” Shortarse’s mouth stretched and slackened and stretched again. You couldn’t tell if he’d just stubbed his toe, or if he was about to burst into hysterical laughter. / “How many Petes you got working here?” / Shortarse shrugged. […] “Thompson,” Pearce said with his eyes closed. “Thompson,” he said again. He opened his eyes and stared. “I’d like to see Pete Thompson.”",
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          "ref": "2025 March 24, Katie Bo Lillis, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny, Evan Perez, Oren Liebermann, Jamie Gangel, Kit Maher and Sean Lyngaas, “Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans”, in CNN:",
          "text": "According to the Atlantic, national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month convened a text conversation with top US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen who had been threatening international shipping in the Red Sea. Waltz, apparently accidentally, added Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the chain.",
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        "A diminutive of the male given name Peter."
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          "text": "Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June\nIn a Kenworth pullin' logs.\nCab-over Pete with a reefer on\nAnd a Jimmy haulin' hogs.",
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        "A Peterbilt truck."
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        "(slang) A Peterbilt truck."
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      "homophone": "peat"
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      "word": "Platitude Pete"
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      "word": "seven-toed Pete"
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          "text": "According to the Atlantic, national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month convened a text conversation with top US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen who had been threatening international shipping in the Red Sea. Waltz, apparently accidentally, added Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the chain.",
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          "text": "Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June\nIn a Kenworth pullin' logs.\nCab-over Pete with a reefer on\nAnd a Jimmy haulin' hogs.",
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        "A Peterbilt truck."
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        "(slang) A Peterbilt truck."
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