piker

pik·er

 (pī′kər)

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

1. (Animals) Austral a wild bullock

2. Austral and NZ a useless person; failure

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

4. a mean person

[C19: perhaps related to pike³]

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pik•er

(ˈpaɪ kər)

n.

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

2. a person who gambles or speculates in a cautious way.

[1275–1325; Middle English: petty thief =pik(en) to pick¹ + -er -er¹; compare dial. (N England, Scots, Hiberno-E) pike to pick¹]

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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.

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Translations

piker

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

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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)

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