单词 | el cheapo |
释义 | el cheapoadj.n. slang (originally U.S.). Of poor quality; very cheap. Also as n., something cheap or shoddy. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective] salec1299 bastarda1348 sorry1372 slight1393 shrewd1426 singlec1449 backc1450 soberc1450 lesser1464 silly?a1500 starven1546 mockado1577 subaltern1578 bastardly1583 wooden1592 starved1604 perishing1605 starveling1611 minor1612 starvy1647 potsherd1655 low1727 la-la1800 waif1824 lathen1843 one-eyed1843 snide1859 bobbery1873 jerkwater1877 low-grade1878 shoddy1882 tinhorn1886 jerk1893 cheapie1898 shaganappi1900 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1907 pissy1922 crappy1928 cruddy1935 el cheapo1967 pound shop1989 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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