Cheap /(chēp)/

Cheap

n.
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
    You grow cheap in every subject's eye.

Phrases & Compounds

Dog cheap
very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]<-- = dirt cheap?-->

Cheap

adv.
  1. Cheaply.

Cheap

v. i.
  1. To buy; to bargain. [Obs.]