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el cheapo

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Adjective

  1. Cheap; inexpensive; of low quality.

Noun

  1. A mock-honorific title given to a particular person who is stingy.
  2. A person who is stingy; a miser.
  3. On the game show The Price Is Right, used in reference to the lowest two-digit number on a board of (initially) nine numbers in the pricing game Money Game.

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