el cheapo
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el cheapo
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From Spanish el (“the”) + cheap + -o (“mock-Spanish suffix”).
adjective
- Cheap; inexpensive; of low quality. I only had five bucks, so I bought the el cheapo headphones.
noun el cheapos
- A mock-honorific title given to a particular person who is stingy. Don't expect a big tip from El Cheapo over there.
- A person who is stingy; a miser. He's such an el cheapo that his wallet hasn't been opened for days.
- 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.
