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piker
noun- a rank amateur or beginner; a gambler who makes small, cautious bets US, 1872
- Willie felt impelled to demonstrate that he was something more than a piker like the others here. — James T. Farrell, Willie Collins, p. 107, 1946
- A man who has killed three cops looks down upon a piker who only kidnapped a child or robbed a post office. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 16, 1948
- I gave him a quarter so he wouldn’t remember me as a piker. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 65, 1950
- Now, however, “piker bets” were disallowed. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 368, 1953
- I winked at the mark and said, “What makes you think we’re pikers? We’re not afraid to bet even as much as ten dollars or more.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 151, 1969
- Mr. Henry Booth, Donovan’s owner. A real wealthy gent. And no piker. Lays out money like it grew on trees. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 30, 1969
- I can’t recall the half of it, but it made the Yellow Kid and Barney the Patch and your average politician look like pikers looting a Sunday school collection. — Guy Owen, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, p. 95, 1972
- a person who opts out of an agreement or abandons
- someone; a weak, cowardly person AUSTRALIA, 1950 A term of high contempt in Australia.
- — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 203, 1957
- None of you pikers’d give breath to a dyin’ man. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 102, 1962
- “You’re ill. Let me take you home.” He looked at me in pure disgust. “Whaddya mean,” he cried. “I’m no piker.” — Sue Rhodes, Now You’ll Think I’m Awful, p. 55, 1967
- (in the sexual subculture of DOGGINGUK
- So a piker is even sadder than a dogger then. Got it! — manxforums.com, 23 April 2006
- Dogging is public sex that often involves voyeurs (Pikers) who are occasionally allowed to join in. — Tim Fountain, Rude Britannia, p. 49, 2008
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