pikey English

Meaning pikey meaning

What does pikey mean?

pikey noun

— (informal) A pike (fish).

pikey adjective

— Associated with or filled with pike (fish).

pikey noun

— (British, pejorative, offensive) 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.

pikey adjective

— (UK, slang, derogatory) Associated with members of the above-mentioned underclass.

pikey verb

— (UK, slang, derogatory) To steal.