5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cheap \Cheap\, 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.]
The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me
lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in
Europe. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers,
there the thing to be sold will be cheap. --Locke.
2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean
You grow cheap in every subject's eye. --Dryden.
{Dog cheap}, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the
catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cheap \Cheap\, adv
Cheaply. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cheap \Cheap\, v. i.
To buy to bargain. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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: (informal) of very poor quality [syn: {bum}, {cheesy}, {chintzy},
{crummy}, {punk}, {sleazy}, {tinny}]
4: embarrassingly stingy [syn: {chinchy}, {chintzy}]
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