cheap out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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We definitely did not cheap out at the end.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
I think people often cheap out on a blender for their home kitchen.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022
PowerA omitted impulse trigger rumble, but if there’s any feature to cheap out on, I’d say that’s the right choice.
From The Verge • May 25, 2022
Heaven is, in fact, a corporate cheap out of the ultimate mountain lodge vacation, full of technicolor fall foliage yet rife with algorithmic glitches, causing him to sometimes long for authentic death.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2020
I believe living is cheap out there, and if I buy three or four mules I shall then have to pay only the wages for the muleteers, and the expenses of living.
From The Treasure of the Incas by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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