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pikey
noun
a tramp; a gypsy; a traveller UK, 1847
Generally used of travellers by non-travellers. Ultimately from early C16 “pike” (to depart). The actor Brad Pitt played a “pikey” in the film Snatch, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, 2000.- [T]his pikey-looking geezer introduced himself, threw up a couple of names, and offered me a bit of work. These pikeys aren’t proper gypsies, though they like to think they are[.] — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 69, 1998
- I gave him the keys to my garage to stash the stuff I got from the pikeys (as we called the gipsies). — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 13, 2000
- Gypsies, pikeys, travellers or didicois, call them what you will[.] — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 13, 2000
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