An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PIKER
Etymology
Noun
piker (plural pikers)
(military, historical) A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
A stingy person; a cheapskate.
An amateur.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
(US, dated) A male freshman at Cornell University.
A tramp; a vagrant.
Synonym: pike
Anagrams
• Kiper
Source: Wiktionary
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22 February 2025
ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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