Piker

Word PIKER
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈpaɪkə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Piker"

What do we mean by piker?

A cautious gambler. noun

A person regarded as petty or stingy. noun

One who makes small bets all over the lay-out. See pike, intransitive verb, 2. noun

On the stock-exchange, a professional speculator. See the extract. noun

One who uses a pike or pointed implement; specifically, in the United States, in ice-harvesting, one who thus controls the movement of cakes of ice. noun

A tramp; a vagrant. noun

A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman. noun

One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money. noun

A stingy person; a cheapskate. noun

An amateur. noun

One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early. noun

One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise). noun

A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.

One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.

A stingy person; a cheapskate.

An amateur.

One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early.

One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).

A male freshman at Cornell University.

A tramp; a vagrant.

1) A lazy worker who only worries about his sick time, paid time off, vacations, and any other paid holiday. He worries more about taking time off then making money or working hard. 2) Best example is from the movie "Boiler Room" where Ben Affleck wants salesmen that want to make money, not pikers who worry only about vacation time. Urban Dictionary

From the word pikey, refers to a person belonging to that group. Pikey/Piker is an Irish gypsy, english trailer trash, and just generally a person not to be trusted, who's past times include stealing, sinnning, gambling and living in caravans. They tend to have a gravitational vortex that attratcts dogs, horses, scrap and junk, and of course, things they have stolen. Characterised by lurchers on a string, a unintelligible language that "isn't English, it isn't Irish, it's just Pikey" (source: Film: Snatch). Pikeys are well-known for their skills of negotiation in business. It's probably why they talk like that...so you can't follow what's being said. (source: Film: Snatch) Urban Dictionary

Origin: 1858 Pike County, Missouri, is located on the Mississippi River north of St. Louis and just south of Mark Twain's Hannibal. It is still a quiet rural county, noted for the Stark Brothers Nursery and not much else. But its name is known nationwide, thanks to Pikers, who followed the gold rushes to California and Colorado in the mid-nineteenth century. By the late 1850s they were so prominent in these adventures that Piker became the nickname for anyone from Missouri, not just from Pike County. We find them in a Marysville, California, newspaper of 1860: "Pillbox said they were there for the benefit of the 'Pikers,' that they might learn to read." The Pikers were not noted for quickness of wit or spectacular success at finding gold, but they did gain a reputation for frugality. A Piker would not gamble, drink, or spend his money to excess. Thus he was viewed by the free-spending majority as a timid cheapskate. And so piker, having lost its association with a particular place and thereby its capital letter, came to mean someone of no boldness or ambition, someone who ventures little and always plays it safe. The term applied first to small-stakes gamblers, then to small-stakes investors in the stock market, then to slackers in any enterprise. Urban Dictionary

Someone who bums out of a party or other occasion altogether, or leaves early after pretending not to pike. Urban Dictionary

One who will request an event, yet at the time of actualization for the event, they cancel. Urban Dictionary

Piker is a ship name of Walker J Bryant & Piper Rockelle there are so sweet, caring and super cute. They meant on August 14, 2019 or idk but there are just neighbor to lovers, but on 2020 April 25 Walker have another crush but piper is happy for walker before but now piper has a boyfriend and walker is happy with her crush ( not piper) they are separated but there memories never die. Urban Dictionary

A coward. the word was used in the popular television series Gunsmoke, in the lyrics of a song sang by Festus Haggan, played by Ken Curtis. Urban Dictionary

One who doesn't come up to a standard. a lay about. one who should be consider less than capable. Urban Dictionary

Settlers headed west, "Pikes Peak or Bust", inexperienced people out of thier element. Same as greenhorn or pilgrim. Urban Dictionary

Someone who avoids his friends so he can hang out on the net, because he's too slack to do otherwise. Urban Dictionary

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The word "piker" in example sentences

I've always thought Stevie was a kind of piker, that is that she would say she was going to do a thing, and then from sheer laziness not do it. ❋ F. Graham [Illustrator] Cootes (N/A)

(_Trying to explain_) No, no -- a piker is a tin horn. ❋ Charles Goddard (1915)

It would have horrified him to be called a piker, for his instincts were really lavish, and the economical habit an achievement in which he took a resentful pride. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

I do not begrudge him is wealth (except he is known as a piker to boot); I excoriate the both of them for their two-faced-ness. ❋ Skip (2008)

Or was he a "piker"; a little fellow, the victim of his own fears and vanities? ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

American is lavish, hates to stint, detests being a "piker", says, "Oh, what's the difference; it will all be the same in a hundred years," but kicks himself mentally afterwards. ❋ Abraham Myerson (1914)

It is not run for them, nor for the "piker," nor for the needy clerk, but for the furious spenders. ❋ Julian Street (1913)

He had not the courage either to give his guests the excellent native claret where they had formerly enjoyed imported champagne or to appear a "piker" in the eyes of the far from democratic family butler. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)

He later upped his donation to $400,000 so he wouldn't look like a "piker" and "to stay in the game" because he said that this year's "stunning" donations were well ahead of what they collected last year. ❋ S.S.U. (2010)

Whoever took out the Big Man was no piker, and this I could trust. ❋ Thomas Pluck (2011)

He contradicts himself several times a week, consistently builds up an infrastructure which can only be meant to crush anyone who disagrees with him and makes "Slick Willie" look like a piker but adulation continues unabated among Catholics here & abroad. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But as stressed as he is by his parents -- and his own -- expectations about his future, Craig comes to realize that, in fact, he's a piker compared to his fellow patients. ❋ Marshall Fine (2010)

Although Lindsey soon found himself out of a job as a result, he turned out to be a piker. ❋ Andrew Bacevich (2010)

Hoodathunk (sponsored by the FSM, Noodles for Freedom!) says: lux, grassley is a piker. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I brought a 1990 Rouget Echézeaux and a 1993 Anne Gros Richebourg—in most company these would be two superstars—and frankly I felt like a piker, given some of the other offerings. ❋ Jay McInerney (2011)

"Huh! My legs is short, but I slog along slack at the knees an 'don't worry my muscles none, an' I can sure walk every piker here off the ice." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Compared to that “institution”, Bernie Madoff was a piker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet this man is hardly atypical — These people need to be exposed for what they are, which is people who think Mao, with his “Cultural Revolution”, was a chiseling two-bit piker. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Sentence]: That piker [will do] anything to [get out] of work. ❋ A Teamer (2007)

"It's a [campsite]. A [pikey] campsite." "What are we doing here?" "We're buying a caravan." "Off a pack of fucking [pikeys]? What's wrong with you? This will get messy...Oh, you bastard.I fucking hate pikers." ❋ Kate Is My Goddamn Name (2006)

He's [pretty good], but compared to the [superstars], he's a [real] piker. ❋ Ema Zee (2008)

[Oh gee] [mij], you're [such a] piker! ;-) ❋ Muhaha (2003)

[Miss B] requested an [orgy], but at the time they were [offered] such a sexual event, they became a piker. ❋ Anarchy (2003)

[I ship] piker but there are over but [never] [forgotten] ❋ Milkytea1243 (2020)

"[A bully] is a piker if you [call] his [bluff]". ❋ Gigi-A-Gogo (2015)

[I lost] a few [pounds] but [my wife] lost over 20. She made me look like a piker ❋ Cockney Canuck (2009)

[I wasn't born yesterday], [I'm not] some piker. ❋ Aerocat (2003)

[Ilkka] would prefer to sit at home [on the net] than come see [X-men] 2 with us... he's suck a piker! ❋ Mark Reow (2003)

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