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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cheap \cheap\ ch=ep, n. as. ce'ap 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
see also:
cheapen chapman chaffer cope 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
see also:
cheap cheapen dog cheap 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cheap \cheap\, adv.
   cheaply. --milton.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cheap \cheap\, v. i.
   to buy; to bargain. obs. --chaucer.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
cheap
     adj 1: relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would
            have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive
            family restaurants" syn: inexpensive ant: expensive
     2: 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,
         flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud,
         meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
     3: of very poor quality syn: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy,
         punk, sleazy, tinny
     4: embarrassingly stingy syn: chinchy, chintzy
see also:
inexpensive expensive brassy flash flashy garish 
gaudy gimcrack loud meretricious tacky 
tatty tawdry trashy bum cheesy 
chintzy crummy punk sleazy tinny 
chinchy 
[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
155 moby thesaurus words for "cheap":
   mickey mouse, ng, at cost, avaricious, bad, base, beggarly,
   beneath contempt, beneath one, brummagem, budget, cheapjack,
   cheaply, cheesy, chintzy, close, closefisted, coarse, common,
   contemptible, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable,
   despicable, disgraceful, easily, easy, economic, economical,
   economy, fake, flashy, for a song, fourth-class, frugal, garish,
   gaudy, gimcracky, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, gutter,
   hardfisted, humiliating, humiliative, illiberal, inexpensive,
   inexpensively, inferior, infra dig, infra indignitatem, irregular,
   junk, junky, lousy, low, low-class, low-grade, low-priced,
   low-quality, low-test, manageable, mean, measly, meretricious,
   miserable, miserly, moderate, modest, near, niggardly, no-account,
   no-good, nominal, not worth having, not worth mentioning,
   not worthwhile, nugacious, nugatory, on the cheap, opprobrious,
   ornery, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, penny-pinching, penurious,
   petty, phony, pinchfisted, pinching, pitiable, pitiful, poor,
   popular, punk, reasonable, reasonably, reduced, rotten, rubbishy,
   sad, save-all, scandalous, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy,
   scuzzy, second-best, second-class, second-rate, seedy, sensible,
   shabby, sham, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sleazy, sorry, stingy,
   tacky, tatty, tawdry, terrible, third-class, third-rate, tight,
   tight-fisted, tightfisted, tinny, token, too bad, trashy, trifling,
   trivial, trumpery, two-bit, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny,
   twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, unexpensive, ungenerous,
   unworthy of one, valueless, vile, within means, worth the money,
   worthless, wretched, wrong





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