A stingy person, as in He's a real cheap skate when it comes to tipping. This idiom combines cheap (for "penurious") with the slang usage of skate for a contemptible or low individual. It has largely replaced the earlier
cheap John. [Slang; late 1800s]
cheap-jack
| Idioms: cheap skate |
| WordNet: cheap-jack |
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a seller of shoddy goods
Synonym: huckster
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