Usually means: Person avoiding risk; stingy individual.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word piker:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. piker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. piker: Merriam-Webster
  3. piker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. piker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. piker: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Piker, piker: Wordnik
  7. piker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. piker: Wiktionary
  9. piker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. piker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. piker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. piker: Dictionary.com
  13. piker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Piker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Piker: Rhymezone
  16. Piker: The Word Detective
  17. piker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. piker: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. piker: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PIKER, PIKER, PIKER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. piker, piker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. piker: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (piker)

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

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