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cheapie, n. and a. slang.|ˈtʃiːpɪ|
Also cheapy.
[f. cheap a. + -ie, -y6.]
A. n. Something cheap (senses 1, 4, and 5); a thing of little value or of poor quality. spec. a film, book, etc., produced on a low budget. Occas. applied to a person.
1898Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 571/2 Cheapy, sb. and adj: Yks. [tʃiə·pi.] 1. sb. A present; a second-hand article. w. Yks. Ah want a coit, an' ah'sl hev ta gooa on t' cheapy (B.K.). 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §30/2 Something poor, mean, contemptible... bushwa, cheapie, chicken-halibut, [etc.]. Ibid. 397 Contemptible person... cat licker, cheapie, cheap-mitt, [etc.]. Ibid. 587/4 Theater... cheapies, theaters with a small admission charge. 1945Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. v. 338 It [sc. Variety] converts all the other parts of speech into nouns, e.g...clicky (a picture making money), cheapie, biggie, brush-off and vocal (a song). 1950Jrnl. (Ithaca, N.Y.) 25 July 12/9 A couple of real cheapies..1929 Essex sedan..$39; 1930 Chevrolet Tudor..$59. 1952Time 12 May 103 Low-cost pictures..known in the trade as ‘cheapies’. 1962Movie Sept. 5/2 One can identify the same talent..behind a British cheapie of 1937, Jump for Glory, a 1945 racecourse movie, Salty O'Rourke, [etc.]. 1968Telegraph (Brisbane) 30 Dec. 19/1 Gold Coast authorities have cracked down on the ‘cheapies’—youths who sleep at night on the beaches or in cars along the roadside or in parks. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 805 I'll explain that right now we don't happen to have anything in that price range. I give them coffee. I take them by the arm..to Gibbons, who does handle cheapies. 1983Guardian 29 Nov. 19/3 It identified insurance shares as a cheapy a couple of years back.
B. adj. Rather cheap, and often of inferior quality. Freq. of films.
1898Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 571/2 Cheapy,..adj. Rather cheap, of second-rate quality. n. Yks. (I. W.) w. Yks. Them trahsers are a bad fit, they're nowt nobbut cheeapy (B.K.). 1973Sat. Rev. Arts (U.S.) Feb. 50/1 That five of the eighteen [new] movies were American-made comedies suggests the beginnings of a trend toward comedy to follow the current run of violence oriented black films, X-rated sex movies and cheapie rip-offs of The Godfathers. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 20 Sept. 7b/7 Remember those cheapie exploitation movies like ‘Reefer Madness’, so shabbily made that they were actually funny? |