Green’s Dictionary of Slang

peck v.2

[? image of a bird pecking until one capitulates]

(Aus.) to give in, to surrender.

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[Aus](con. WWI) A.G. Pretty Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: peck. Give in; yield.