piker

Plural: pikers

Noun

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

Examples

• He was such a piker in Words With Friends, always saving his high-value tiles for too long.
• Mate, don't be a piker! Come to Angie′s birthday party tonight!

Synonyms

pike