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small-timer

noun

Etymology

From small time + -er.

Definitions

  1. A person who is limited to small, petty or unimportant things.

    • She hated Ed Feinberg, the sleazy, lying, blood-sucking small-timer. Still he was a man; if he had called her up in the old days, in Seattle, she'd have entertained him.
    • The small-timers, as he put it, kept their currency in their homes, in safes, in false ceilings, under beds. When necessary, our tax people know where to look. The big-timers, however, use Swiss banks.
    • “If he's smooth, he don't have to worry too much about the cops, because he's such a small-timer, and when they come around, he cooperates. […]”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA