piker

[pahy-ker]

noun

Informal.

1. a person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way.

2. a stingy, tight-fisted person; tightwad.

   Synonyms: skinflint, penny pincher, cheapskate

3. a person who gambles, speculates, etc., in a small, cautious way.

piker

/ ˈpaɪkə /

noun

1. a wild bullock

2. a useless person; failure

3. a lazy person; shirker

4. a mean person

Word History and Origins

Origin of piker¹

1275–1325; Middle English: petty thief, equivalent to pik ( en ) to pick ¹ + -er ¹; compare dial. (N England, Scots, Hiberno-English ) pike to pick ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of piker¹

C19: perhaps related to _pike ³

Example Sentences

And so, on a brisk morning in the nation’s capital—hours removed from Obama’s feel-good commencement—the crowd at Crooked Con grew steadily more apprehensive as they watched Tim Miller get into an argument with Hasan Piker under hot ballroom spotlights.

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Piker, the megapopular Twitch-streaming socialist, referred to the nation as a “Jewish ethnostate” with an “exterminationist” policy toward Palestinians.

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Like everyone else at Crooked Con, Piker is luxuriating in what he thinks is a vibe shift.

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“Hopefully,” continued Piker, “we’ll create the Marxist-Leninist wine-mom vanguard someday.”

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Piker was challenging a foundational doctrine of Democratic policy; that’s not something that was often granted a seat at the table.

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