[cheep-skeyt] 
noun, verb, -skat⋅ed, -skat⋅ing. Informal.| 1. | a person who is stingy and miserly. |
| 2. | to act in a stingy or miserly way. |
cheap skate
A stingy person, as in He's a real cheap skate when it comes to tipping. This idiom combines cheap (for "penurious") with the slang usage of skate for a contemptible or low individual. It has largely replaced the earlier cheap John. [Slang; late 1800s]
