Why we need creatives The truth is that we need more creatives in positions of influence â to color the world with beauty and life. Creatives craft poetry in a world that is otherwise content with prose.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Crooner. Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of pop standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, either backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano. Originally it was an ironic term denoting an emphatically sentimental, often emotional singing style made possible by the use of microphones.
As youâve already discovered, there are many meanings of piker, including the variation youâve rightly disregarded, the derogatory English regional slang term pikey. That comes from piker for a tramp or vagabond who was always on the road, who travelled the turnpikes, the one-time toll roads of England.