cheap skate

English

Noun

cheap skate (plural cheap skates)

1. Alternative form of cheapskate
   • 2009, Jackson Gregory, Marshall of Sundown, →ISBN, page 16:

     Anyhow, ten minutes would show whether he was a cheap skate or the real goods.

   • 2011, Leslie Greenman, Dating Our Money: A Women’s Guide to Confidence with Money and Men, →ISBN:

     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?”

   • 2012, John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, →ISBN, page 223:

     Man wants to spend twenty thousand dollars on a palace of pleasure and worries if I'm gonna think he's a cheap skate.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheap,‎ skate.
   • 1868, George Anderson, The art of skating, by Cyclos, page 15:

     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.