especially: an inexpensively produced motion picture
cheapieadjective
Examples of cheapie in a Sentence
Her first camera was a cheapie.
Recent Examples on the WebThen there’s season three, which feels like one of those particularly cruel straight-to-video cheapies.—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2024 Well, the Braves used the longball to win Game – but there wasn’t a cheapie in the bunch.—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020 Bart's homer against right-hander Luis Vasquez was not a Cactus League cheapie.—Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 22 Feb. 2020 Durable backpacks can cost $50 to $80, whereas the super cheapies may not make it through the first quarter of school.—Author: Laura Daily, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2019 Christian Jones got a bit of a cheapie when he was called for roughing the passer on Bills quarterback Josh Allen that negated an interception, but Tracy Walker had a bad personal foul for hitting tailback Frank Gore out of bounds in the leg.—Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2019
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