Definitions for piker

piker pik·er

Spelling: [pahy-ker]
IPA: /ˈpaɪ kər/

Piker is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in piker (eikpr).

Definitions for piker

noun

  1. a person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way.
  2. a stingy, tight-fisted person; tightwad.
  3. a person who gambles, speculates, etc., in a small, cautious way.

Origin of piker

1275-1325; Middle English: petty thief, equivalent to pik(en) to pick1 + -er1; compare dial. (

Examples for piker

"That was a piker's trick—listening in on me, Dick," he remonstrated half-impatiently.

"That shell was fired to-day," said the 'piker,' authoritatively.

"I called for a sport and drew a piker," Jim Searles retorted.

If you're going to be a crook, don't be a piker—it's too risky.

He thinks he's been a piker and that you and I are his first-assistant pikers.

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

No wonder you don't want to stop for any of this piker stuff.

Siebold, who really was no piker, was slipping on his gloves and having them laced up.

There never was a piker in the Cottle family, was there, Wes?

She threw a small revolver at the 'piker,' who picked it up.

Word Value for piker
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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