piking (out or off)

verb

present participle of pike (out or off)
as in departing
to leave a place often for another early next morning the aloof guest just piked out without saying a word

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piking (out or off)
  1. departing
  2. exiting
  3. moving
  4. running along
  5. peeling off
  6. pulling out
  7. walking out
  8. pushing on
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said Friday afternoon that all four Moscow airports -- Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky -- stopped flights arriving and departing for security reasons.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Paramount+ head of originals Jane Wiseman is departing the streamer as the post-merger combination of it and HBO Max takes shape.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of departing
Verb
  • Stanichi is exiting Mattel at a transformative moment for the toy and entertainment company as well (though conversations about this move have been said to be months in the making).
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
  • At the same time, insurers are increasing premiums and, in some cases, exiting high-risk markets altogether, leaving some homeowners more exposed.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of exiting
Verb
  • This reduces computational requirements, allowing the system to operate on a moving robot with limited processing resources.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Over the last few decades, the percentage of children diagnosed with myopia has moved steadily upward, while age at diagnosis appears to be moving down.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of moving
Verb
  • Later, she’s entertained by a mouse running along the baseboard of one of London’s more elegant restaurants.
    — Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Spanning 40 miles as the crow flies, the Suwalki Gap is a corridor of land, running along the Polish/Lithuanian border, that connects the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Belarus.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of running along
Verb
  • The crowd is in constant flux, peeling off and joining in depending on what the song queue has in store.
    — Skyli Alvarez, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Trump voters were not as united around Marshall, with 9% of them peeling off for Hamilton.
    — Elizabeth Schreier, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of peeling off
Verb
  • The abrupt development came on the heels of BC Partners pulling out of its arrangement to invest $300 million into the LIV Golf League after a simple head count made clear not enough of the circuit’s top golfers planned to return in 2027.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
  • National groups from both parties began pulling out of the race earlier this month, signaling that both now view the contest as less competitive than previously thought.
    — Josephine Murphy, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulling out
Verb
  • On the one hand, the journalist’s role is to gather information, and so walking out or not covering news events poses a difficult conundrum.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
  • In France, high schoolers have been walking out since mid-September over teacher shortages, classrooms that sometimes top 40 students.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of walking out
Verb
  • This is the table stakes of getting to keep pushing on the frontier and keep pushing toward AGI.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Jeffries visited over lunch before pushing on to the next stops, driven by a sense of purpose that the country can do better.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of pushing on
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“Piking (out or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piking%20%28out%20or%20off%29. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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