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

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

From Slate • May 31, 2018

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

From what you say, this fellow is probably some piker who has left his country for his country's good.

From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis