"cheap skate" meaning in English

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      "form": "cheap skates",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "word": "cheapskate"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Jackson Gregory, Marshall of Sundown, page 16",
          "text": "Anyhow, ten minutes would show whether he was a cheap skate or the real goods.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Leslie Greenman, Dating Our Money: A Women’s Guide to Confidence with Money and Men",
          "text": "Again, not being an expert and not wanting to sound like a cheap skate, I asked, “Is there a reason I should choose the $2300.00 one versus the $600.00 one?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, page 223",
          "text": "Man wants to spend twenty thousand dollars on a palace of pleasure and worries if I'm gonna think he's a cheap skate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of cheapskate"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, George Anderson, The art of skating, by Cyclos, page 15",
          "text": "In the sale shops, the quality of the fastenings is usually proportioned to that of the skate ; but let the iron and wood be as common as the learner pleases, he should have the fastenings good ; and for the common cheap skate they should consist of a good screw to go up into the heel, and a small bar of iron across the tread of the foot, an inch forward from the broadest place, and turned up at the ends to catch the sole of the boot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheap, skate."
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          "skate",
          "skate#English"
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  "word": "cheap skate"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cheap skates",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "cheap skate (plural cheap skates)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "cheapskate"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Jackson Gregory, Marshall of Sundown, page 16",
          "text": "Anyhow, ten minutes would show whether he was a cheap skate or the real goods.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Leslie Greenman, Dating Our Money: A Women’s Guide to Confidence with Money and Men",
          "text": "Again, not being an expert and not wanting to sound like a cheap skate, I asked, “Is there a reason I should choose the $2300.00 one versus the $600.00 one?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, page 223",
          "text": "Man wants to spend twenty thousand dollars on a palace of pleasure and worries if I'm gonna think he's a cheap skate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of cheapskate"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1868, George Anderson, The art of skating, by Cyclos, page 15",
          "text": "In the sale shops, the quality of the fastenings is usually proportioned to that of the skate ; but let the iron and wood be as common as the learner pleases, he should have the fastenings good ; and for the common cheap skate they should consist of a good screw to go up into the heel, and a small bar of iron across the tread of the foot, an inch forward from the broadest place, and turned up at the ends to catch the sole of the boot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheap, skate."
      ],
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  "word": "cheap skate"
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