piker

Meanings

Plural: pikers

Noun

• A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
• One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
• A stingy person; a cheapskate.
• An amateur.
• A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
• One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
• One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
• A male freshman at Cornell University.
• A tramp; a vagrant.

Synonyms

pike