Definitions for cheap

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Spelling: [cheep]

IPA: /tʃip/

Cheap is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in cheap (acehp).

Definitions for cheap

Idioms

1. cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive:
2. on the cheap, Informal. inexpensively; economically:

adverb

1. at a low price; at small cost:

adjective

1. costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive:
2. costing little labor or trouble:
3. charging low prices:
4. of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy:
5. embarrassed; sheepish:
6. obtainable at a low rate of interest:
7. of decreased value or purchasing power, as currency depreciated due to inflation.
8. stingy; miserly:

Origin of cheap

before 900; Middle English cheep (short for phrases, as good cheep cheap, literally, good bargain), Old English cēap bargain, market, trade; cognate with German Kauf, Old Norse kaup; all Lati

Examples for cheap

In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.

Was Che anything more than a cheap karaoke of what he stood for?

Tillie was no longer the waitress at a cheap boarding-house.

Paper and cloth are cheap, what people are paying for is the story.

Betrayal…you can hear it…betraying the thing he loves for a cheap bit of film publicity.

She had moved to a cheap apartment which she shared with two other girls from the store.

cheap jars are likely to be seconds and will not prove so satisfactory.

In a country where talk is “cheap” and opinions are “a dime a dozen,” we give the facts special privileges and special status.

Of course, unless father gives me one for a wedding present, it will be a cheap one.

Of her own sort, in this single particular, were the two girls with whom she shared a cheap room.