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Synonyms for piker

  • noun

Most common

tramp vagabond cheap skate pike miser cheapo niggard

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Break-promise — one who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise)

reneger, break-promise dated, break-vow dated

2. Bum

bum, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, floater, waif, swagman, stiff, derelict, hobo, drifter, truant, landloper

Other

cheap skate, pike, miser, niggard, cheapo

Antonyms

baller, spendthrift

All antonyms of piker →

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).

  2. n. 2

    A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.

Related words

Is a kind of
punter

Forms

Plural
pikers → renegers, break-promises, break-vows, bums…

Example sentences

  • tramp Don't tramp in the living room with muddy feet.
  • vagabond The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist.
  • pike Tom caught a pike that was sixty centimetres long.
  • miser The miser opened the box to find his money stolen.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
pikersteady
trampsteady
vagabondrising
pikefalling
misersteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
bum1
4 letters
pike1, hobo2, waif1
5 letters
stiff1, tramp1, miser2
6 letters
truant2, cheapo2
7 letters
vagrant2, drifter2, floater2, swagman, niggard2, reneger
8 letters
derelict3, vagabond3
9 letters
landloper

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hobo2 = 2 syllables).