small-timer

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small-timer

noun small-timers · smalltimer

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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@misc{small_timer_2026,
  title = {small-timer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/small-timer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}