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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 ;

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    [Noun]  | "cheapness" 


    1: the quality or practice of being overly sparing with money;


      * e.g., " ... his chronic cheapness is such that he never takes vacations or replaces old, worn-out household goods "



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    [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 "





     [ "cheapness" ]

    1: When someone tells you something out of utter boredum

      * e.g.,  ... "something happened yesterday." 

     [ "on the cheap" ]

    1: describing something thats done inexpensively or on a tight budget

      * e.g.,  ... when we went on vacation in Europe a few years ago, we did it on the cheap, staying in hostels and biking around wearing our backpacks. 

     [ "cheaping" ]

    1: In various kinds of games: to win, not by cheating, exactly, but by relying on techniques that lack any finesse, skill, or sophistication. Keeping to the letter of the rules, without respecting their spirit. Victory without sportsmanship, but without entering any cheat codes.

      * e.g.,  ... A: "You must be pretty good at street fighter to finish off the AI with a perfect round!" 

     [ "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

     [ "CheapES" ]

    1: A GPS navigator that doesn't work as well as you had hoped. It will not recognize what rode you are on, if it is not a main road, and will not recognize certain house numbers or stores.

      * e.g.,  ... I really should have sprang an extra $50 and gotten a real GPS instead of this crappy old CheapES. 

     [ "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. 

     [ "cheaps" ]

    1: The cheapest chips you could buy at your local supermarket.

      * e.g.,  ... Yo, bro! Pass me some of those cheaps. 

     [ "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: One that deliberately uses the same damn moves especially in fighting games.

      * e.g.,  ... Stop being cheap with rapheal-soul calibur 2 

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