>>>Thanks for the info. You are not exactly a piker yourself, you know ;-) If you say it's worth checking out then I believe you.
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>>Since a lot of native speakers don't know what a "piker" is I will translate as "an inexperienced person or a person who may not know what he is talking about" <bg>
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>>yani acemi olmasin
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>Thanks:) I really needed that explanation (guessed something like "pike yapan, her onüne gelene atlayan").
>Cetin
That "pike" comes from French. (pique) Here we call it "poker" (the card game) I'm not sure, actually, where the "piker" comes from in English. A "pike" is either a kind of fish or a long lance or spear. ( also is an old name for road - now you usually only hear it in "turnpike" which is a superhighway - usually a toll road. Maybe "piker" means a guy who just wandered down the road :-)
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