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Meanings of cheap skate in English

A person who is stingy and miserly.

Usage of cheap skate in English
1
Grimshaw would curl his lip in a sneer and mutter: The cheap skate.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
2
I'd not waste breath teaching a whiner or a cheap skate.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
3
She's a good, decent, affectionate girl, and Dave's a cheap skate, all right.
Main Street
4
You're nothing but a cheap skate, a tin-horn gambler, run down at the heels.
A Texas Ranger
5
You're a cheap skate trying to put up a front!
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
6
Ah, poke him one, the dirty cheap skate.
The Beautiful and Damned
7
I haven't always been a cheap skate.
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
8
He's not a cheap skate.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
9
Forever the cheap skate.
Terminal Compromise
10
What kind of cheap skates do you take us for?
100%: the Story of a Patriot
11
Cheap skate, he might have made it twenty.
The Cow Puncher
12
We got to go rollin' down to Rio as well as sing about it to a lot of cheap skates.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
13
This country is full of promoters, cheap skates, and that sort, and they'll try to stampede you into some investment.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
14
"You're taggin' yoreself a bully an' a cheap skate when you do it."
A Man Four-Square
15
He said he was a Gentleman, and that no Cheap Skate in a Plug Hat could tell him where to Get Off.
More Fables
16
"I never saw one that wasn't a cheap skate."
The Shadow World
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Cheap skate through the time
Cheap skate across language varieties
United Kingdom
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