cheapskate

[ cheep-skeyt ]

/ ˈtʃipˌskeɪt /

Informal.

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noun

a person who is stingy and miserly.

verb (used without object), cheap·skat·ed, cheap·skat·ing.

to act in a stingy or miserly way.

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Origin of cheapskate

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; cheap + skate³

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How to use cheapskate in a sentence

In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.
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Betrayal…you can hear it…betraying the thing he loves for a cheap bit of film publicity.
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Riffing off the slogan “Now Everyone Can Fly,” the carrier offered no-frills flights that were both cheap and plentiful.
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Paper and cloth are cheap, what people are paying for is the story.
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Was Che anything more than a cheap karaoke of what he stood for?
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Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.
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In 1205 wheat was worth 12 pence per bushel, which was cheap, as there had been some years of famine previous thereto.
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Some cheap food was presented to the printer in the shape of potatoes, with which his windows were smashed.
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In the early sixties a cheap edition appeared, and cheap editions were rare things then.
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She was dressed in her brightest skirt and fairly shone with the abundance of cheap jewelry she wore.
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British Dictionary definitions for cheapskate

cheapskate

/ (ˈtʃiːpˌskeɪt) /

noun

informal a miserly person

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with cheapskate

cheap skate

A stingy person, as in He's a real cheap skate when it comes to tipping. This idiom combines cheap (for “penurious”) with the slang usage of skate for a contemptible or low individual. It has largely replaced the earlier cheap John. [Slang; late 1800s]

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