piker
/ˈpʌɪkə
/noun informal
1North American A gambler who makes only small bets.He had a temperament too generous for his occupation as our county's leading piker (my mother insisted to her clients he was a speculator, not a gambler).
1.1A mean or cautious person.
2Australian /NZ A person who withdraws from a plan, commitment, etc.There were a number of pikers to the dinner, including Mrs Lefty, who was stuck at work doing reports until about 9.30 pm....
- It seems rather apropos that everyone else found it too much hassle to enter - pikers!
- In terms of brutality, systematic repression, number of killings, relish for torture and sum total of human misery caused, he was a piker next to that tyrant.
Origin
Late 19th century: from pike5.
Rhymes
- you (or you've) said it!
- you pays your money and you takes your choice
- your
- your actual ——
- Yourcenar, Marguerite
- you're
- you reap what you sow
- you're a star!
- you're on
- you're telling me
- your humble servant
- your mileage may vary
- yourn
- your obedient servant
- yours
- yourself
- yours ever
- yours faithfully
- yours sincerely
- yours truly
- yous
- you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
- youse
- youself
- yousens