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cheapo

The English word “cheapo” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Inexpensive and of poor quality.

noun

  1. A person who is stingy, a miser.
  2. Something produced and sold for low cost.
  3. A primitive trap, often set in the hope of swindling a win or draw from a losing position.

Etymology

From cheap + -o (“person with characteristic”, colloquialising suffix).

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