Someone who is
stingy and makes extraordinary efforts to
save a buck. Cheap-asses are different from the
poor or
cash-strapped -- they usually can
afford to spend the extra $1.47 per shopping trip by not
clipping coupons and sending in
rebates, but they refuse to "
waste money". These people are
bargain shoppers extraordinaire, spending more on gas to travel to different stores in search of deals than what they actually save by doing so.
Cheap-asses refuse to give in to the lure of
convenience and never buy things on
impulse. Cheap-asses can be
annoying as hell.