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piked

verb

Meaning

  1. To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
  2. To assume a pike position.
  3. To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
  4. Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
  5. To equip with a turnpike.
  6. (thieves' cant) To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
  7. Furnished with a pike; ending in a point
  8. Describing a dive in which the knees are kept straight, but the body is bent at a right-angle at the hips

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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