dirt cheap

adjective or adverb

: exceedingly cheap

Examples of dirt cheap in a Sentence

a dirt cheap little house that was the proverbial fixer-upper
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Miami Herald stories on Schandler’s method of using court judgments and, possibly, people bidding under phony names to snag the condos dirt cheap got the Bar reopening the investigation. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025 The Bronx’s fire-prone tenements were dirt cheap, yet wealthy investors in several countries held stakes in them. Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025 That’s the ticket: elevated-seeming glassware that’s actually dirt cheap. Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2025 The company, best known for its trendy clothing at dirt cheap prices, was last valued at $66 billion in a funding round in 2023. Zinnia Lee, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for dirt cheap

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dirt cheap was in 1819

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“Dirt cheap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirt%20cheap. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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