cheap skate
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheap, skate.
Example Sentences
- "Anyhow, ten minutes would show whether he was a cheap skate or the real goods."
- "Again, not being an expert and not wanting to sound like a cheap skate, I asked, “Is there a reason I should choose the $2300.00 one versus the $600.00 one?”"
- "Man wants to spend twenty thousand dollars on a palace of pleasure and worries if I'm gonna think he's a cheap skate."
- "In the sale shops, the quality of the fastenings is usually proportioned to that of the skate ; but let the iron and wood be as common as the learner pleases, he should have the fastenings good ; and for the common cheap skate they should consist of a good screw to go up into the heel, and a small bar of iron across the tread of the foot, an inch forward from the broadest place, and turned up at the ends to catch the sole of the boot."