noun. A cautious gambler.

noun. A person regarded as petty or stingy.

noun. One who makes small bets all over the lay-out. See pike, intransitive verb, 2.

noun. On the stock-exchange, a professional speculator. See the extract.

noun. One who uses a pike or pointed implement; specifically, in the United States, in ice-harvesting, one who thus controls the movement of cakes of ice.

noun. A tramp; a vagrant.

noun. A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.

noun. One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.

noun. A stingy person; a cheapskate.

noun. An amateur.

noun. One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early.

noun. One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).

"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."

biker  byker  hiker  spiker  striker  

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Arab  adventurer  beach bum  beachcomber  beggar