cheapie

American  

[chee-pee] / ˈtʃi pi /

Or cheapy

noun

1. a cheaply made, often inferior, product.

   The movie studio made a dozen cheapies last year.

2. any item that is inexpensive as compared with others of its kind.

   All brands of margarine taste alike to me, so I buy a cheapie.

3. a stingy or miserly person.

   That cheapie wouldn't buy anyone a gift!

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adjective

1. of, being, or pertaining to a cheap or inferior product.

   cheapie shoes.

2. stingy; miserly.

Etymology

Origin of cheapie

First recorded in 1940–45; cheap + -ie

Example Sentences

Both losses came at home, with the Kraken not managing a third-period shot Monday until Adam Larsson put a cheapie on goal from the other end of the rink with 97 seconds to play.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2023

The film exists in an idiosyncratic world that feels like an exacting re-creation of a late-’60s/early ’70s low-budget movie but with a sharp, contemporary feminist point-of-view that would never be found in some period exploitation cheapie.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2016

In the year since, I set out to understand what made his cheapie formula work and how he convinces his directors to pinch pennies.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2016

The Kings were a fertile black market for Trumbo, Lester Cooke, Ian Hunter, John Howard Lawson and others on the blacklist, who were hired to write cheapie pictures for bargain fees.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2015

The back half collapses first, a cheapie addition that's fifty years younger than the rest of the place.

From Shadow of the Mothaship by Doctorow, Cory