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Definitions for cheapskate
ˈtʃipˌskeɪtcheap·skate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cheapskate, tightwadnoun

    a miserly person

Wiktionary

  1. cheapskatenoun

    Someone who stingily avoids spending money.

    He is such a cheapskate, he found that jumper in a dustbin.

  2. cheapskatenoun

    By extension, someone who doesn't give freely.

    My mum is such a cheapskate that she didn't lend me money to go shopping.

  3. Etymology: cheap + skate (fellow)

Wikipedia

  1. cheapskate

    A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to hoard money or other possessions. Although the word is sometimes used loosely to characterise anyone who is mean with their money, if such behaviour is not accompanied by taking delight in what is saved, it is not properly miserly. Misers as a type have been a perennial object of popular fascination and a fruitful source for writers and artists in many cultures.

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  1. cheapskate

    A cheapskate is a person who is overly thrifty or ungenerously stingy with money; someone who tries to avoid spending money to an extreme degree. This term is often used in a disapproving or humorous context.

Wikidata

  1. Cheapskate

    Cheapskate is a US-only single from Britpop band Supergrass' second album In It For The Money that rose to #35 for four weeks on the US Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. While being only a 7" promotional single, it has an accompanying music video, that was, for an unknown reason, left off the Supergrass Is 10 DVD. The song is said by the band themselves to have drawn influences from Kool & The Gang.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cheapskate in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cheapskate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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