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    [Adjective]  | "cheap" | \ ˈchēp \


    1: charging or obtainable at a low price

    2: purchasable below the going price or the real value

    3: depreciated in value (as by currency inflation)


    Origin: 1509 ;

     See: ;

    [Adverb]  | "cheap" 


    1: for little cost : cheaply


    Origin: 1569 ;

    [Noun]  | "cheap" 


    1: bargain


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English chep, from Old English cēap trade; akin to Old High German kouf trade; both ultimately from Latin caupo tradesman;

    [Noun]  | "cheap shot" 


    1: an act of deliberate roughness against a defenseless opponent especially in a contact sport

    2: a critical statement that takes unfair advantage of a known weakness of the target


    Origin: 1971 ;

    [Noun]  | "cheap thrill" 


    1: a minor thing done for entertainment

    [Adjective or adverb]  | "dirt cheap" 


    1: exceedingly cheap


    Origin: 1819 ;

    [Idiomatic phrase]  | "for cheap" 


    1: for a relatively low cost


    Origin: 1977 ;

    [Idiomatic phrase]  | "on the cheap" 


    1: at minimum expense : cheaply


    Origin: 1859 ;

    [Idiom]  | "come cheap" 


    1: to be available at a low price —usually used in negative statements

    [Idiom]  | "talk is cheap" 


    1: —used to mean that it is easy to say that one will do something

    [Adjective]  | "cheap" 


    1: costing little;


      * e.g., " ... e-mail is so popular because it's a cheap way to send messages "





    2: of low quality;


      * e.g., " ... a cheap sweater that started to unravel almost as soon as I bought it "





    3: giving or sharing as little as possible;


      * e.g., " ... a cheap coworker who never contributes to the collections taken up in the office "





    [Adjective]  | "dirt cheap" 


    1: costing little;


      * e.g., " ... a dirt cheap little house that was the proverbial fixer-upper "





     [ "cheap" ]

    1: A reference to one of the following:

      * e.g.,  ...  " That guy's cheap " 


     [ "cheap" ]

    2:  An individual who is extremely careful with money

      * e.g.,  ...  " She's real cheap " or " He's real cheap " 


     [ "cheap" ]

    3:  An individual who is easy to have sex with

      * e.g.,  ...  " You're cheap! " " Man, that's cheap " 


     [ "cheap" ]

    4:  An individual who uses the same tactic/tactics to win

      * e.g.,  ...  " Those jeans are cheap! " 


     [ "cheap" ]

    5:  An object that is worth very little

     [ "cheap" ]

    1: someone that doesn't like to spend money

      * e.g.,  ... Olvier is very cheap 

     [ "cheap" ]

    1: A tactic available in a game which is loved and loathed in equal measure. people who abuse a cheap tactic would call it "effective" as it is available for use in the game. As effective as it may be, abuse of a cheap tactic can detriment skill at a game as cheap tactics do not usually require a great deal of skill to utilise in the first place. People can also become reliant on it to win, further detrimenting skill. Cheap tactics tend to proliferate themselves as people adopt a cheap tactic to counter the same cheap tactic used against them (esp. the combo in Halo 2). The debate about a particular cheap tactic can become never-ending, due to the mixed opinions on the debate of cheapness vs effectiveness.

      * e.g.,  ... Counter-Strike -The n00b cannon --Kills with pretty much one hit, even when shot in the toe. 

     [ "cheap" ]

    1:  a term to qualify a person, action or condition as bad or undesirable. a way to express one's disapointment. Commonly prefaced by "That's so...", "freakin'...", or followed by "...crap."

      * e.g.,  ... There may be a guy or girl you see who in the interest of popularity does certain things to make themself look "cool," but in your opinion the things they do are really lame. You may say that this person is cheap. If my computer was to crash in the middle of my writing a long blog I would have said, "What the...? That's so cheap." You may come home after a long day and there is nothing you would like to watch on TV. In that case, TV is being cheap. 

     [ "cheap" ]

    1: A negative term for a person who decides to save money. People who are savers prefer to be called frugal.

      * e.g.,  ... Tom: A penny saved is a penny earned. 


     [ "cheap" ]

    2: This term is used by people who are jealous of savers and are unable to save money themselves.

      * e.g.,  ... Jack: You cheap ass loser. 

     [ "cheap" ]

    1: A word used by dumb ass scrubs & n00bs to taunt any move/person that can beat them in a fighting game.

      * e.g.,  ... Scrub/n00b: Hey, AHVB is cheap! 

     [ "cheap" ]

    1: one who cant bear to spend money on Anything.

      * e.g.,  ... Marc is so cheap that he uses cold water to wash dishes to save money 


     [ "cheap" ]

    2: one who will die wearing rags, living in a cardboard box, with millions in their bank account.

      * e.g.,  ... Marc is so cheap he brings his dates out to thier parents fridge for dinner. 

     [ "cheap" ]

    1: A female who cares neither who nor what she has sex with.

      * e.g.,  ... Man, my ex was so cheap. 

     [ "cheap" ]

    1: An individual that goes beyond all reasonable means to save a buck (i.e. Take soda to a fast food restaurant in order to avoid paying for the soda at the restaurant when eating in the restaurant).

      * e.g.,  ... "Are you bringing a soda with you to the burger joint? Boy, you are cheap!" 

     [ "cheap" ]

    1: Lots of people have danced around the definition, but no one has said it fully, so I will.

      * e.g.,  ... I've been called cheap so many times in the Arcade's Soul Calibur 2, mostly by the same people that challenge me over and over. There are precious few others that aren't just scrubs that take their losses like men, use a different character, and scrape together a win.  


     [ "cheap" ]

    2: "Cheap!" the interjection, or "You are cheap!" the insult are mostly used by scrubs in video games of all types. It could be zerg rushing in Starcraft, or using an AWP in Counter-Strike, or just WINNING the highly balanced game, Soul Calibur II, where EVERY MOVE has something you can do to counter.

      * e.g.,  ... These same scrubs and whiners pick the SAME character over and over and over, believe that there are tiers for the characters (Yoshimitsu is kickass, and Yunsung is worst by a landslide? You wish.), and post on SoulCalibur.com, which is worse than the SomethingAwful Forums. 


     [ "cheap" ]

    3: The interjection or insult is mostly used by scrubs that don't know how to truly play the game to people that do, and beat them, to attempt to guilt-trip them against using a certain attack, or playing their best. Despite popular opinion, button-mashers are not cheap; they are just button-mashers. Carefully timed attacks counter their sloppy timing and lack of variety and throw moves.

      * e.g.,  ... Heck, one guy is so vehement that he's resorted to the most childish tactics of blocking the coin input with his leg, and making oh-so-creative names of me in conquest like "Kentar Sux" and "Gaythar." simply because the first time I played him, I beat him. 


     [ "cheap" ]

    4: Another definition cited Soul Calibur 2's Raphael, where all of his moves have something to stop them. Is he using 236B? Block or sidestep, and counter. Is he doing the Auto-Evade? Do a throw. EVERYTHING in SC2 has something to stop it, even Guard Impacts, which are extremely difficult to do 100% of the time, and can be tripped up with charge and delay moves. I will make an exception in Nightmare, who is fast, powerful, and has long range, so is therefore completely unstoppable in a good player's hands.


     [ "cheap" ]

    5: The moral of this definition is: Don't get mad, get better.

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