piker
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Is piker a Scrabble word?
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noun (English)
1. (military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.Examples: "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."historical
2. (Australia) A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)Examples: "‘There's always a few old piker bullocks find their way into this country. But mostly cattle don't come this far.’"Australia
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".Examples: "Mate, don't be a piker! Come to Angie′s birthday party tonight!"AustraliaNew-Zealandslang
4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).AustraliaNew-Zealandslang
5. (US, dated) A male freshman at Cornell University.USdated
Definition source: Wiktionary