el cheapo

Meanings

Noun

• A mock-honorific title given to a particular person who is stingy.
• A person who is stingy; a cheapskate.
• On the game show The Price Is Right, used in reference to the lowest two-digit number on a board of (initially) nine numbers in the pricing game Money Game.

Adjective

• Cheap; inexpensive; of low quality.

Related

Similar words

• no-name
• brand X

Origin

• From Spanish el ("the") + cheap + .