Usually means: Offensive term for Romani people.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. pikey: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. pikey: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Pikey, pikey: Wordnik
  4. pikey: Wiktionary
  5. pikey: Dictionary.com
  6. Pikey: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Pikey: Rhymezone

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pikey (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. pikey: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. pikey: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pikey)

noun:  (informal) A pike (type of fish).
adjective:  Associated with or filled with pike (fish).
noun:  (UK, Ireland, ethnic slur, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, derogatory, offensive) A working-class (often underclass) person with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft and living on rundown estates.
adjective:  (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) Associated with pikeys.
verb:  (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) To steal.

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