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- noun Plural form of
cheapskate .
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Examples
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But I unbuttoned my board shorts and forged ahead in the name of cheapskates everywhere.
Jamie Reidy: Living Stupid Jamie Reidy 2011
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But I unbuttoned my board shorts and forged ahead in the name of cheapskates everywhere.
Jamie Reidy: Living Stupid Jamie Reidy 2011
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I could pretend that I am taking a stand against commercialism, but that's just a word cheapskates use to attempt to justify their miserly ways.
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FOX NEWS, never known as cheapskates, supposedly pays its guy, Sheppard Smith the whopping sum of $8 million a year.
Richard Greener: The Pundit Plutocracy - They're Not "Regular Folks" 2010
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Those of us who are never polled are not 'unlikely voters', we're just technically savvy Ma-Bell-hatin 'cheapskates.
Oh, yeah, there's going to be a Republican Vice-Presidential candidate too, isn't there? 2008
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Two South African diplomats based at the South African mission to the United Nations in New York were on Monday labelled cheapskates in the New York press after a dispute over a US3,50 taxi fare at the weekend.
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Thune added the caviate that they look like "cheapskates" now, dilutes his admission that Republicans started this mess, and did nothing to control it.
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So I guess that makes me and 1,000s of others 'cheapskates'.
Sound Politics: "Ballot-bag problems may slow counting of 8th District votes" 2006
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Aside from the bartender bellowing not to be "cheapskates" at the beginning of the show and a few tossed off comments from the bands, no one seemed interested in the circumstances that brought these four local bands together on one bill.
Express Milwaukee 2010
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Yeager's book presents a variety of strategies for saving money and living below your means from hundreds of "cheapskates" he surveyed while traveling the country to promote an earlier book.
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