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cheapskate - 3 dictionary results

cheap⋅skate

[cheep-skeyt] noun, verb, -skat⋅ed, -skat⋅ing. Informal.
–noun
1. a person who is stingy and miserly.
–verb (used without object)
2. to act in a stingy or miserly way.

Origin:
1895–1900, Americanism; cheap + skate 3
cheap·skate   (chēp'skāt')   
n.   Slang
A stingy person; a miser.

cheapskate 
"miserly person," 1896, from cheap (q.v.), second element perhaps from Amer.Eng. slang skate "worn-out horse" (1894), of uncertain origin.
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