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  • verb Present participle of pike.

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Examples

  • Archer's chiding words still lingered in his mind, and, moreover, without the glass he could do nothing for he certainly would never have thought of entering Norne without first "piking" it from a safe vantage point.

    Tom Slade with the Boys Over There Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • And it's weird, no one really gets angry at me for piking ... they just seem to look down on me, if you get what I mean.

    stupid zombietron 2009

  • In response to message #2 on saturday i was headin down wilson way around 1pm or so and seen 4 bsw most i ever seen in the area at once and this was just near ww and harding, was piking up truck from shop .. wish i had more time. fellas ur rite craigslist shuttin it down was great lets just hope these sw respect this recession …

    In Defense of Craigslist « Bound, Not Gagged 2009

  • Which is why I keep piking, because I sure do love to make people happy, and nothing makes someone happier than feeling superior to someone else.

    stupid zombietron 2009

  • Where the new pay roads met the old free ones, people often circumvented the tollgates a practice called “shun-piking” that, in one humble opinion, would have been more cleverly termed “spurn-piking”.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • This time he saw it: another slight ledge piking up on the other side of the vertical path.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Ai akshulee thort ai am in teh TTI an piking up an ack scent!

    dis my impreshun of u - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Yet, each time I find a million reasons for quitting, I find myself piking up the sword again the very next day.

    Up Late 2007

  • So when he said, "Hike your legs, honey, I was piking like a cheerleader in tenth grade."

    CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2009 2009

  • Inclooding piking up 5 gallons ov red barn paynt this afternoon!

    BABYSITTIN - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

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  • Promising to turn up at an event, but deciding not to at the last minute.

    "Hey man, is John coming?"

    "Nah, hes piking, the dirty rotten piker"

    see also piker

    May 10, 2009

  • So, flaking?

    May 10, 2009