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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cheap \Cheap\, n. [AS. ce['a]p bargain, sale, price; akin to D. Koop purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf {Cheapen}, {Chapman}, {Chaffer}, {Cope}, v. i.] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.] The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cheap \Cheap\, a. [Abbrev. fr ``good cheap'': a good purchase or bargain; cf F. bon march['e], [`a] bon march['e]. See {Cheap}, n., {Cheapen}.] 1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. --Locke. 2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean You grow cheap in every subject's eye. --Dryden. {Dog cheap}, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cheap \Cheap\, adv Cheaply. --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cheap \Cheap\, v. i. To buy to bargain. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cheap adj 1: relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants" [syn: {inexpensive}] [ant: {expensive}] 2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: {brassy}, {flash}, {flashy}, {garish}, {gaudy}, {gimcrack}, {loud}, {meretricious}, {tacky}, {tatty}, {tawdry}, {trashy}] 3: (informal) of very poor quality [syn: {bum}, {cheesy}, {chintzy}, {crummy}, {punk}, {sleazy}, {tinny}] 4: embarrassingly stingy [syn: {chinchy}, {chintzy}]
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