(1) I was the ultimate piker , early-nighter, spoil-sport, party-pooper, etc.(2) Not that that isn't fun, but I'm a first class piker who refuses to do it too much.(3) He had a temperament too generous for his occupation as our county's leading piker (my mother insisted to her clients he was a speculator, not a gambler).(4) In terms of brutality, systematic repression, number of killings, relish for torture and sum total of human misery caused, he was a piker next to that tyrant.(5) There were a number of pikers to the dinner, including Mrs Lefty, who was stuck at work doing reports until about 9.30 pm.(6) It seems rather apropos that everyone else found it too much hassle to enter - pikers !
