"cheap-skate" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: cheap-skates [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cheap-skate (plural cheap-skates)
  1. Alternative form of cheapskate Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: cheapskate
    Sense id: en-cheap-skate-en-noun-Zt91XbyI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2010, M. C. Beaton, Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House, →ISBN:",
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