piker

pik·er  (pkr)

n. Slang

1. A cautious gambler.

2. A person regarded as petty or stingy.

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[Possibly from Piker, a poor migrant to California, after Pike County in eastern Missouri.]

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piker [ˈpaɪkə]

n Slang

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) Austral a wild bullock

2. Austral and NZ a useless person; failure

3. US, Austral, and NZ a lazy person; shirker

4. a mean person

[perhaps related to pike³]

Thesaurus

piker

noun (Aust. & N.Z. slang) slacker, shirker, skiver (Brit. slang), loafer, layabout, idler, passenger, do-nothing, dodger, good-for-nothing, bludger (Austral. & N.Z. informal), gold brick (U.S. slang), scrimshanker (Brit. Military slang) He works so hard he makes the rest of us look like pikers.

Translations

piker [ˈpaɪkəʳ] N (US) (= stingy person) → agarrado/a m/f, roñoso/a m/f; (= unimportant person) → pelagatos mf inv; (= coward) → gallina mf

piker

n (pej)

(US sl: = cautious gambler) → vorsichtige(r) Spieler(in)

(US sl: = miser) → Geizhals m

(Austral sl: = shirker) → Drückeberger(in) m(f) (pej), → Memme f (pej), → Faulenzer(in) m(f) (pej)