piker

Example Sentences

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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

"A fellow can't be a piker, Bill," he said, with the air of a profligate young millionaire escapading in the columns of the press.

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.