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Cheap, used as an adverb, has one meaning, 'at a low price', and regularly follows the verb as closely as possible:

Picture-books seem to end up by being sold off cheap as remaindered volumes—Country Life, 1981.

Cheaply has this meaning and also means 'in low esteem':

The small Renault is underpowered and rather cheaply built—M. Harris, 1980.

A regular idiom is to come cheap (or occasionally cheaply):

A gondolier doesn't come cheap—but punting down the canals is the very best way to explore—Best, 1991

The brothers enjoyed the hedonistic pleasures of the big city's pleasures that did not come cheaply—R. Long, 1990.

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adjective

1. Low in price: inexpensive, low, low-cost, low-priced. See money, value/worthlessness/evaluation.
2. Of decidedly inferior quality: base, lousy, miserable, paltry, poor, rotten, shoddy, sleazy, trashy. Informal cheesy. Slang crummy, schlocky. See good/bad.
3. Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, pinching, stingy, tight, tightfisted. See give/take/reciprocity.

Idioms beginning with cheap:
cheap shot
cheap skate

See also dirt cheap; on the cheap.

adj

Definition: inexpensive
Antonyms: costly, dear, expensive

adj

Definition: inferior, low in quality
Antonyms: excellent, noble, precious, priceless, superior, valuable, worthy

adj

Definition: low, vulgar
Antonyms: sophisticated, superior, upper

IN BRIEF: adj. - Relatively low in price or charging low prices. adj. - Embarrassingly stingy; Of very poor quality; Tastelessly showy.

Education is the cheap defense of nations. — Edmund Burke 

Tutor's tip: A "cheep" is a birdlike sound or peep, while something that is "cheap" is something of inferior quality or low cost.

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adjective
adjective, Brit, Austral, and NZ

as cheap as chips extremely cheap. (1850 —) .
Time Out The Indoor Market looks like it hasn't altered in twenty years, but Turkish slippers and suitcases are as cheap as chips (2004).

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For a list of words related to cheap, see:

• Economics and Economic Theory - cheap: (adj) low-priced; reluctant to spend money
• Spending, Receiving, and Possessing Wealth - cheap: (adj) stingy
• Cold, Unfriendly, Irritable, or Cruel
• Vulgar, Rude, Degenerate, or Wild
• Demanding, Critical, Calculating, or Selfish

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See words rhyming with "cheap."

  See crossword solutions for the clue Cheap.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - billig
adv. - billigt

idioms:

• cheap shot    billig bemærkning

Nederlands (Dutch)
goedkoop, voordelig, vulgair

Français (French)
adj. - (Écon) bon marché, de mauvaise qualité (péj), de pacotille, facile, sale (coup, menteur)
adv. - au rabais, y aller à l'économie (péj)

idioms:

• cheap shot    coup bas

Deutsch (German)
adj. - billig, schäbig
adv. - billig

idioms:

• cheap shot    gemeine Bemerkung

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - φτηνός, οικονομικός, παρακατιανός, φτηνιάρικος, ευτελής, ποταπός, πρόστυχος

idioms:

• cheap shot    (καθομ.) άνανδρο πλήγμα, φτηνό πείραγμα

Italiano (Italian)
a buon mercato, volgare, grossolano

idioms:

• cheap shot    battuta grossolana, colpo basso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - barato, vulgar, fácil

idioms:

• cheap shot    tirar vantagem de uma fraqueza

Русский (Russian)
дешевый, никчемный, жадный

idioms:

• cheap shot    беспричинное проявление грубости

Español (Spanish)
adj. - barato, económico, de mal gusto, cursi, vulgar
adv. - vulgarmente, económicamente

idioms:

• cheap shot    golpe bajo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - billig, lättköpt

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
便宜的, 不值钱的, 便宜地, 卑鄙地

idioms:

• cheap shot    偷偷摸摸的犯规动作, 暗算

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 便宜的, 不值錢的
adv. - 便宜地, 卑鄙地

idioms:

• cheap shot    偷偷摸摸的犯規動作, 暗算

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 싼, 싸구려의, 풀이 죽은
adv. - 싸게

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 費用のかからない, 安い, 安価な, 安売りの, 購買力の低下した, 低金利の, けちな, 安っぽい, 容易に手に入る, 楽な
adv. - 安く, 安価に

idioms:

• cheap shot    卑劣なプレー

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) رخيص, زهيد الثمن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮זול‬
adv. - ‮בזול‬

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