small-timer
See also: smalltimer
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small-timer (plural small-timers)
- A person who is limited to small, petty or unimportant things.
- 1934, Lew Levenson, chapter VIII, in Butterfly Man:
- 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.