Cheap (?), n. [AS. ce�xa0;p bargain, sale, price; akin to D. Koop purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.] 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.
Shak.
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Cheap, a. [Abbrev. fr. "good cheap": a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon march'e, a bon march'e. See Cheap, n., Cheapen.] 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.
Locke.
2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
Dryden.
Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]
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Cheap, adv. Cheaply.
Milton.
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Cheap, v. i. To buy; to bargain. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
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