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    Cheap , n. [AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.]
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    The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
    Shak.

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    Cheap, a. [Abbrev. fr. “good cheap”: a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon marché, à bon marché. See Cheap, n., Cheapen.]
    1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.
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      Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap.
      Locke.

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    2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
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      You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
      Dryden.

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      Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]

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    Cheap, adv. Cheaply.
    Milton.

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    Cheap, v. i. To buy; to bargain. [Obs.]
    Chaucer.

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