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cheapo
adjective
inexpensive US, 1972- It’s a cheapo takeoff on porn flicks and movie musicals that might have been expected to die unheralded of its own terminal ineptitude. — Washington Post, p. B4, 5 September 1977
- [W]ith cheapo bullets like these it don’t all the time go clear around. — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, 1992
- Usually I kind of like the Valley, with its mix of uptown sidewalk cafe bars and downtown cheapo sleaze. — Dirk Flinthart, Brotherly Love, p. 87, 1995
- Mum comes crying, finds me at my aunt’s watching cheapo Greek video. — Christos Tsiolkas, Loaded, p. 148, 1995
- [S]hooting speedballs and drinking lethal cocktails of Niquil [a branded sedative] and cheapo bourbon. — Stuart Browne, Dangerous Parking, p. 65, 2000
- [George Harrison] was the proud owner of a “real cheapo horrible little guitar[.]” — Uncut, p. 40, February 2002
- [Safeway’s] beer team has avoided the cheapo policy of some of its competitors and has been both imaginative and innovative[.] — Guardian, 1 March 2003
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