dirt-cheap
[durt-cheep]
- very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
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- cheaply: They got it dirt-cheap.
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Origin of dirt-cheap
First recorded in 1815–25
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Related Words for dirt-cheap
reasonable, low-cost, cheap, low-priced, modest, economical, popular, bargain, budget, buy, low, nominal, reduced, steal, thrifty, dirt-cheap, half-priceExamples from the Web for dirt-cheap
Contemporary Examples of dirt-cheap
Consider Spirit Airlines, the dirt-cheap carrier everyone loves to loathe.
Historical Examples of dirt-cheap
Well, no, not labels: been buying them abroad—get them dirt-cheap there.
Life On The Mississippi, CompleteMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
I had no time to inquire much about the pigs, but a man told me that they were dirt-cheap.
Rural RidesWilliam Cobbett
And we can sell it so dirt-cheap that the whole country has got to take it—can't get around it you see.
Life On The Mississippi, CompleteMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
But the Assyrians (like the Romans after them) could avail themselves of a limitless amount of dirt-cheap labour.
The Cradle of MankindW.A. Wigram
And we can sell it so dirt-cheap that the whole country has GOT to take it—can't get around it you see.
Life On The Mississippi, Part 8.Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
dirt-cheap
- informal at an extremely low price
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