piker

Example Sentences

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Michael Bloomberg, another SPC, with his own media empire, makes Schultz look like a piker by comparison.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2019

But even he was a piker compared with wartime presidents such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2014

The Rapture is a piker in this film; of its reported $16 million budget, roughly $15 million appears to have gone to Cage on a dare that he maintain a straight face.

From Chicago Tribune • Oct. 2, 2014

The dispiriting thing is that Jack Abramoff, in the wake of the financial lobbying of the last few years, looks like a piker.

From Salon • May 6, 2010

"The old piker is trying to figure, with silver as low as it is, whether he's ahead or behind on the deal!"

From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van