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small-timer

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  • noun A person who is limited to small, limited, petty or unimportant scale of things.

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Examples

  • Maggio's story and plotting can be predictable, but he gets a real feel for the life of a small-timer, not just from Farina but from the others who populate Joe's strata of Chicago life.

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: The Last Rites of Joe May Marshall Fine 2011

  • There the Darknight Detective stops another small-timer (hired by Adam Strange) from stealing an ancient stone tablet.

    Plan 9 From The 1983 Comic-Con, or Are You Smarter Than A DC Writer? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • A small-timer up to now, the money-hungry Clay may be in over his head, and unfortunately, his crew begins to sense it.

    John Farr: Classic "Under The Radar" Gangster Movies 2010

  • No small-timer, Martin's previous job before becoming an FCC Commissioner had been leading the 2000 Bush-Cheney Florida vote recount that enabled the Bush Presidency.

    Andrew Kreig: Probe the Past To Protect the Future 2009

  • Power excels against type as the sleazy Stanton (a role he loved playing), and Blondell brings the perfect cheap, faded quality to small-timer Zeena.

    John Farr: The Best "Under the Radar" Film Noir by Farr 2008

  • Henpecked, lazy, a nerd with an attitude, Ames, 52, sounded like a small-timer on the FBI tapes that led to his arrest last week on charges of espionage.

    Deadly Mole 2008

  • Henpecked, lazy, a nerd with an attitude, Ames, 52, sounded like a small-timer on the FBI tapes that led to his arrest last week on charges of espionage.

    Deadly Mole 2008

  • Sure, it was George's plan, that one big score every small-timer dreams of.

    Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

  • They teach us in training school that you never know what small-timer is going to break the big one, and Valachi is the example they give to make their point.

    The Big Scam Paul Lindsay 2005

  • When you are that smart and that energetic my favorite Milken story is that of the ambitious small-timer who after months of pleading finally got an appointment with Milken at 5:30 am Sunday, only to have Milken call back to say that he just realized that was the Sunday you set the clocks back an hour at the end of Daylight Savings Time, so could they reschedule for 4:30 am?

    Archive 2005-01-09 Steve Sailer 2005

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