piker
a person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way.
a stingy, tight-fisted person; tightwad.
a person who gambles, speculates, etc., in a small, cautious way.
Origin of piker
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How to use piker in a sentence
Well, just to keep the pikers out, announced Hooker, Ill give it another lift.
The New Boys at Oakdale | Morgan ScottIll tell you fellows that youre 126 a lot of pikers to hesitate to pledge three or four hundred dollars to keep your team going.
The Turner Twins | Ralph Henry BarbourAll forms of chance were thrown into the gambling pot, melted and handed out to the pikers as so many gold bricks nightly.
The Vice Bondage of a Great City or the Wickedest City in the World | Robert O. HarlandSixty thousand pikers in Chicago feeding the gambling goddess through her handbook mouth daily!
The Vice Bondage of a Great City or the Wickedest City in the World | Robert O. HarlandHe stood across from it and watched the gambling combines agent skin the pikers and he never moved to stop it.
The Vice Bondage of a Great City or the Wickedest City in the World | Robert O. Harland
British Dictionary definitions for piker
/ (ˈpaɪkə) /
Australian a wild bullock
Australian and NZ a useless person; failure
US, Australian and NZ a lazy person; shirker
a mean person
Origin of piker
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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