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piker

[pahy-ker] / ˈpaɪ kər /
NOUN
cheapskate
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I’m on only my 5,644th report, so I’m a mere piker.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021

Michael Bloomberg, another SPC, with his own media empire, makes Schultz look like a piker by comparison.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019

In California’s 39th District, it makes her a piker.

From Slate ● May 31, 2018

The Rapture is a piker in this film; of its reported $16 million budget, roughly $15 million appears to have gone to Cage on a dare that he maintain a straight face.

From Chicago Tribune ● Oct. 2, 2014

“It’s no piker you’re pulling with now,” he exclaimed as we climbed stiff and awkward into that deep-upholstered grandeur on wheels.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)




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