Crossword clues for cheapo
cheapo
- Shoddy
- Inexpensive, slangily
- For next to nothing, in slang
- Penny-pincher, slangily
- Cut-rate, slangily
- Tightwad
- Two-bit
- Low-cost, in slang
- El _____
- Bloke describing sweetheart - old and trashy, but affordable!
- Inexpensive, inferior
- Inexpensive old banger impounded by commanding officer
- Inexpensive and shabby
- Hardly swanky
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1967, from cheap (adj.) + -o.
Wiktionary
a. (context slang English) inexpensive and of poor quality. n. 1 (context slang English) A person who is stingy, a cheapskate. 2 (context chess English) A primitive trap, often set in the hope of swindling a win or draw from a losing position.
Wikipedia
Cheapo is a music retail chain with 3 locations in Minnesota where customers can purchase new and used compact discs, DVDs, and, at some locations, cassettes and vinyl records. The stores' trademark is a vast selection of new, used, and local music at competitive prices. While the stores generally focus on popular music of numerous types, the locations in St. Paul and Minneapolis also feature jazz and classical music. The Minnesota locations have "the world’s largest selection of Minnesota and North Dakota music." 1 Used discs purchased by Cheapo first go into unsorted racks—one for each day of the week—before being sorted and placed into the general collection. Customers looking for the best deals spend much of their time flipping through those seven racks, producing a distinctive "click-click-click" sound as they go along. A typical store is quite spartan, the building merely a warehouse or unfinished retail space with waist-high wooden racks of discs; larger stores are carpeted. There are usually a few listening stations for trying out discs. Stores may also feature an area of "top ten" selections for a regional radio station.
Cheapo keeps prices cheap by keeping overhead low: stores are sparsely decorated, no computer inventory or barcode systems are used, and used music makes up a large percentage of the selection.
The company produced vibrant and humorous television advertisements in the 1990s. Around 2004, ads called the company "the last authentic music store."
Usage examples of "cheapo".
Typical convenience-store setup: cheapo black-and-white with stuttered speed, so the fuzzy images jerked along like Claymation.
She'd bought a ten-dollar cheapo at the grocery store before renting the boat.
And if your hardware is like mine -- lots of Brand X and El Cheapo stuph, you can take a long time experimenting with what drivers will work.
You can generally find a El Cheapo store that will sell it to you for $99.
And if your hardware is like mine -- lots of Brand X and El Cheapo stuph, you can take a long time experimenting with what drivers will work.
Drake, who wrote Dorothy Denning out of nowhere, and asked for an interview for his cheapo cyberpunk fanzine, and then started grilling her on her ethics.
At one of our coffee stops, I'd bought a cheapo razor and attempted shaving.
I now buy very high-quality shoes, and they seem to last forever, whereas the cheapos used to wear out quickly and always looked as cheap as the price I’d paid for them.
He still missed cigarettes, but the region right around here was about the largest manufacturer of clay pipes in Europe, from cheapos to deluxe.
I now buy very high-quality shoes, and they seem to last forever, whereas the cheapos used to wear out quickly and always looked as cheap as the price I’.