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单词 el cheapo
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el cheapoadj.n.

/ɛl ˈtʃiːpəʊ/
Etymology: jocular pseudo-Spanish: see el adj., cheapo adj.
slang (originally U.S.).
Of poor quality; very cheap. Also as n., something cheap or shoddy.
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1967 CB Buyers' Guide 100/2 You now have built an ‘El Cheapo’ CB tester.
1973 D. Lang Freaks 101 The food is mediocre steak-house fare, the service is non-existent, the coffee tastes like shoe-polish with too much sugar in it, and El Cheapo the place may be, but cheap it isn't.
1977 Washington Post 15 May h10/6 An auto repairman who charges high rates may be able to claim that he does better work than el cheapo down the street.
1983 80 Microcomputing Jan. 37/1 You could get away with an el cheapo cassette recorder for storage.
1990 People Weekly (U.S.) 19 Feb. 9/3 The tape segments do bring back what a relaxed and gracious entertainer ‘America's No. 1 pea picker’ has been, despite this equivalent of an el-cheapo gold-plated watch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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