"small-timer" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1934, Lew Levenson, chapter VIII, in Butterfly Man:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, John Sandford, The Night Crew, Putnam, →ISBN, page 148:",
          "text": "“If he's smooth, he don't have to worry too much about the cops, because he's such a small-timer, and when they come around, he cooperates. […]”",
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      "glosses": [
        "A person who is limited to small, petty or unimportant things."
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          "small",
          "small"
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          "petty",
          "petty"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "smalltimer"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "small-timer"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1934, Lew Levenson, chapter VIII, in Butterfly Man:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, John Sandford, The Night Crew, Putnam, →ISBN, page 148:",
          "text": "“If he's smooth, he don't have to worry too much about the cops, because he's such a small-timer, and when they come around, he cooperates. […]”",
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        }
      ],
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        "A person who is limited to small, petty or unimportant things."
      ],
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          "small",
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          "petty",
          "petty"
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    {
      "word": "smalltimer"
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  "word": "small-timer"
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