Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Cheap.
- n. One who is cheap.
Wiktionary
- adj. slang Inexpensive and of poor quality.
- n. slang A person who is stingy, a cheapskate.
Etymologies
- cheap + -o (Wiktionary)
Examples
“ZDNet's Dancho Danchev has a nice little investigative piece about the underground economy in cheapo Indian data-centers that break CAPTCHAs for spammers all day long:”
“Kate Gilbert's Peapod jacket from Knitting Daily done in cheapo Plymouth Encore DK (which I've found washes really well) for a friend's one year old.”
“The "cheapo" 700s are about $600, and are outgunned by the T/C, a whole Benjamin less.”
Isn't it wonderful that we have so much to choose from as gun nuts and rifle loonys?
“They're made by Hoyt, and it definitely does not shoot like a "cheapo".”
I am looking into purchasing my first bow after years of firearm hunting for whitetail.
“Dave, tell your friend Phil not to knock the "cheapo" ammo at Wal-Mart.”
“In a more sensible era, Joe Eszterhas's script for Basic instinct at best might have been grist for a tawdry little B movie about murder and sexual obsession, the kind of cheapo noir thriller cranked out in the '40s and' 50s.”
“I can understand the argument that some people are so deeply buried in debts that they can't even get a "cheapo" credit card — it's definitely possible, although one can only wonder how they are still able to pay for Internet access and electric power.”
On Linden Lab's Contingency Measures to Ensure Service as Second Life Grows - SLOG
“If the before was actually hand painted and not some kind of cheapo wallpaper, it looked way better than the "after" in my opinion. breezie on March 31st 2010 at 2: 09pm view breezie's”
“Not a fan of the psychedelic look, quite frankly that kind of cheapo porn star video went out years ago, and that bit on the Zebra … seriously WTF?”
“Pick up the "cheapo" every now and then, just to preserve the skills, and see what the future brings.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cheapo’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cheapo.
jrome "...I bought this cheapo pair of random whatevers. They had RHINESTONES. I was SO STOKED. They were the best ever. Wore them all the time when I got back home. Alas, they broke!! I took them to several optomotrists and they all said no way to repair them." - Erin Alexander, CA Feb 7, 2008