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piker

[ pahy-ker ]

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noun

Informal.

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

piker

/ ˈ�貹ɪ��ə /

noun

a wild bullock
a useless person; failure
a lazy person; shirker
a mean person

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Word History and Origins

Origin of piker¹

1275–1325; Middle English: petty thief, equivalent to pik ( en ) to pick ¹ + -er ¹; compare dial. (N England, Scots, Hiberno-English ) pike to pick ¹

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Word History and Origins

Origin of piker¹

C19: perhaps related to pike ³

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It is Jan. 19—the last day of Joe Biden’s presidency, and the eve of a new one no one can quite fathom yet—and Hasan Piker is preparing for the end of the world.

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As he almost always is, Piker is live on Twitch.

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Piker is in the center of the frame, his peripheral vision swallowed up by three chunky computer monitors.

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There is not much left to be said at the dawn of the second Trump administration, so Piker ends his stream in relative silence, watching highlights from the weekend’s Saturday Night Live.

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Even the Pod Save America podcast, staffed by former Obama flacks who’ve long advocated for a more institutional brand of progressivism, hosted Piker and listened patiently while he ripped the party a new one.

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