Cheap skate

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of cheapskate. alt-of, alternative

    "Anyhow, ten minutes would show whether he was a cheap skate or the real goods."

  2. 2
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 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."

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