释义 |
piking, vbl. n. and ppl. a. dial. and slang.|ˈpaɪkɪŋ| [? f. pike, var. pick v.1: cf. piker1.] Cheating; using sharp practices.
1884in Western Pennsylvania Hist. Mag. (1918) I. 97 After considerable deliberation I concluded to try a little ‘piking’, and had Leslie sell five thousand barrels ‘short’ at 64. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. v. 490 The Father of His Country was crumpled, folded, and offered in the most piking and meretricious traffic millions of times a day. 1972Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 2/6 An East End publican who referred in his bar to the Tibbs family as ‘dirty piking bastards’ was attacked in the street by four men with knives and an axe. |