Cheap
n.
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A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.]
The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
Cheap
a.
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Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.
Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap.
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Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
Phrases & Compounds
- Dog cheap
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very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]<-- = dirt cheap?-->
Cheap
adv.
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Cheaply.
Cheap
v. i.
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To buy; to bargain. [Obs.]