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A piker is someone who backs away when a thing gets hard, especially when money is involved — they will not pay their share, they drop the bet, they pull out of the plan. You hear it most in Australian and New Zealand English; it is informal and a bit sharp, the sort of word friends use when they are . It can mean a mean, small-spending person as well as someone who bottles out. Though actually, this is not a classroom word in American or British English, so often never meet it. Older American use once pointed at poor from Pike County, Missouri, who went to California; that story belongs to history now. If you call someone a piker, you are saying they are being cheap or they are not seeing something through. It can sting, so use it with care.
臨陣縮頭的人；尤其是該出錢、該跟注卻縮手的那種。澳洲、紐西蘭口語，台灣日常不太用這個英文字。
組成From pike + -er. In some senses it has been linked to the word pikey, and also to Pike County in eastern Missouri, where the term once meant poor immigrants to California. The Turkish name Piker is a separate borrowing and is not this word.
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Pikername
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A surname from Turkish.
- While watching the VOD later, xQc insinuated that Fortnite pro Bucke was an "NPC" who was only there to defend Tate and not give Piker a fair shot – and what resulted afterward has caused quite a stir in its own right.
pikernoun/ˈpaɪkə(ɹ)/
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historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsA soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
- Upstairs in a waiting room there were pikers whose tunics echoed Baudricourt′s gold lion shield painted up and down the rafters.
- By 1600, the ratio of pikers to gunmen was roughly 3:2. By mid-century the ratio was only 1:2, and by 1670 there was just one piker to every three gunmen in the French Army.
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One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
- “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”
- Bud swelled his chest and laid his hand on Jeff′s shoulder. “Just to show you I′m not a piker,” he cried recklessly, “I′ll bet you twenty-five dollars I can beat your Skeeter with my Smoky horse that I rode in here. Is it a go?”
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A stingy person; a cheapskate.
- “And if you′ve got to be a piker,” said Dolly, “don′t be ashamed to be a piker. We′re not spending a hundred dollars because we can afford it, but because you dreamt a dream.”
- The golden nuggets in the stream at Sutter′s Mill in California made Croesus look like a piker, and Australia, the Klondike, and South Africa were yet to come.
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An amateur.
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A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
- ‘There's always a few old piker bullocks find their way into this country. But mostly cattle don't come this far.’
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slangOne who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
- Mate, don't be a piker! Come to Angie′s birthday party tonight!
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slangOne who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
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datedA male freshman at Cornell University.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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A tramp; a vagrant.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。