Small-timer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From small time + -er.

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