piker
Example Sentences
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Michael Bloomberg, another SPC, with his own media empire, makes Schultz look like a piker by comparison.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019
But even he was a piker compared with wartime presidents such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2014
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
The dispiriting thing is that Jack Abramoff, in the wake of the financial lobbying of the last few years, looks like a piker.
From Salon ● May 6, 2010
Another interesting item relates to the origin of the slang term "piker," which, whatever it may have meant originally, is used to-day to designate a timid, close-fisted gambler, a "tightwad" or "short sport."
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street
