Pikey

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪki

pike + -y

Full definition of pikey

Noun

1. A low-ranking soldier who merely carries a pike.

From obsolete pike, to depart or travel, or possibly from turnpike

- needs to be confirmed

Noun

1. (British, pejorative) A working-class (often underclass) person; can vary from specifically Irish Travellers to gypsies or travellers from any ethnic background, but now increasingly used for any socially undesirable person, with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft, single-parent families and living on run-down estates.

Derived from the stereotype that all gypsies or other travellers are thieves.

Verb

1. (UK, slang, derogatory) to steal.