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pikey

/ˈpaΙͺ.ki/
Visual illustration of pikey: Associated with or filled with pike (fish).
adjective

Associated with or filled with pike (fish).

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Visual illustration of pikey: 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.
noun

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.

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Visual illustration of pikey: To steal.
verb

To steal.

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Visual illustration of pikey: Associated with members of the above-mentioned underclass.
adjective

Associated with members of the above-mentioned underclass.

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