Definition of "piker" [piker]

• Slang A cautious gambler. (noun)
• Slang A person regarded as petty or stingy. (noun)

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• "I've always thought Stevie was a kind of piker, that is that she would say she was going to do a thing, and then from sheer laziness not do it."
• "(_Trying to explain_) No, no -- a piker is a tin horn."
• "It would have horrified him to be called a piker, for his instincts were really lavish, and the economical habit an achievement in which he took a resentful pride."