piker.
A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
Meaning & usage
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.
A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
Mate, don't be a piker! Come to Angie′s birthday party tonight!
One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
A male freshman at Cornell University.
A tramp; a vagrant.
Where this word comes from
From pike + -er. In some senses, it has been linked etymologically to the word pikey as well as to Pike County in eastern Missouri https://web.archive.org/web/20051111194645/http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/p/p0300200.html. In the latter instance the term originally denoted poor immigrants to California.
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