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cheapskate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Don't be such a cheapskate - it's your turn to buy lunch. ▪ Howard rode with us in the taxi, but the cheapskate didn't offer to pay any of the fare. ▪ I'm not going out with those cheapskates again - they didn't buy a ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cheapskate is a US-only single from Britpop band Supergrass ' second album In It For The Money that rose to #35 for four weeks on the US Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. While being only a 7" promotional single, it has an accompanying music video, that was, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also cheap skate , "miserly person," 1896, from cheap (adj.), second element perhaps from American English slang skate "worn-out horse" (1894), which is of uncertain origin.
Usage examples of cheapskate.
Zoyd was both a certified pizzamaniac and a cheapskate, but not once had he ever hustled Prairie for one nepotistic slice of the Bodhi Dharma product.
The oversize head projected at the top of the pedestal followed each approaching donor with a steely programmed gaze, smiling at the hefty contributions and intimidating the cheapskates with a scowl.
How could he treat his workers in this cavalier and also cheapskate fashion?
The Button Factory, by a cheapskate devotee or else a mildly crazy one.
Let us go to the castle and see what the parties there will give us for taking care of these cheapskates behind the sandbags.
Latest idea was whisky but combined with other small gift so as not to seem cheapskate or anonymous-possibly combined with tangerines and chocolate coins, depending on whether Jude decided Christmas Stocking conceit over-cute to point of nausea or terrifyingly smart in its Post-Modernity.
Then, with eyes narrowed, she added, “Listen, if that welching cheapskate bookie sent you around to pull some kind of razzle-dazzle on me, you can just scram while you're able to do it under your own power.
In private, he said that he who pays the piper calls the tune, and since the rest of them were such cheapskates they’.