piker

Example Sentences

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“We’re not gonna be pikers about it,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has the chance to take a committee chairmanship at long last, but committee chairmanships are for pikers.

From Slate • May 3, 2025

Last year’s champion Royals almost seemed like pikers for mentioning they hadn’t even been in the playoffs for 30 years until 2014.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2016

They join in a single shared pursuit: watching in horror as their youngest generations squander money in ways so staggering that Western show-offs look like pikers by comparison.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2015

It makes twenty-first-century scientists sound like pikers, I said when I contacted her.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann