'Cheap' definitions:
Definition of 'cheap'
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adjective
Relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants" [syn: cheap, inexpensive] [ant: expensive]
adjective
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, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]
adjective
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Definition of 'Cheap'
From: GCIDE
- Cheap \Cheap\, adv. Cheaply. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cheap'
From: GCIDE
- Cheap \Cheap\, v. i. To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cheap'
From: GCIDE
- Cheap \Cheap\ (ch[=e]p), 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.] [1913 Webster]
- The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cheap'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean. [1913 Webster]
- You grow cheap in every subject's eye. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]