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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

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

So just drop me a line at the above address, letting me know everything's O. K. Remember I'm no piker and I'll fix you up good.

From The Vagrant Duke by George Gibbs




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