cheap out (English, verb)
expansion: cheap out (third-person singular simple present cheaps out, present participle cheaping out, simple past and past participle cheaped out)
Senses:
glosses: To reduce costs on a project or product to an unreasonable degree; to cut corners.
tags: informal
glosses: To act cheap; to unreasonably refuse to spend money.
tags: informal
glosses: To be too stingy to achieve a purpose or provide a promised product/service/project.
tags: informal
intransitive
Forms:
form: cheaps out
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cheaping out
tags: participle
present
form: cheaped out
tags: participle
past
form: cheaped out
tags: past
form: cheapen out
tags: alternative