el cheapo

adj

Meaning

A mock-honorific title given to a particular person who is stingy.
Cheap; inexpensive; of low quality.
On the game show The Price Is Right, used in reference to the lowest two-digit number on a board of (initially) nine numbers in the pricing game Money Game.
A person who is stingy; a miser.

Etymology / origin

From Spanish el (“the”) + cheap + -o (“mock-Spanish suffix”).

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