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cheap-skate

cheap-skate is the alternative form of cheapskate.

Meaning of cheapskate

Noun

cheapskate (plural cheapskates)

  1. Someone who stingily avoids spending money.
    • He is such a cheapskate, he found that jumper in a dustbin.
    Antonyms:
    spendthrift
  2. (broadly) Someone who does not give freely.
    • My mum is such a cheapskate that she didn't lend me money to go shopping.

Forms of cheap-skate

pluralcheap-skates

Questions about cheap-skate

What is cheap-skate the alternative form of?
Cheap-skate is the alternative form of cheapskate.

Words near cheap-skate in the dictionary

  1. cheap-jacks
  2. cheap-shot
  3. cheap-shots
  4. cheap-shotted
  5. cheap-shotting
  6. cheap-skate
  7. cheap-skates
  8. cheapass
  9. cheapasses
  10. cheapdate
  11. cheaped

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheap-skate (page history and authors); cheapskate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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