1low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services:local buses were reliable and cheap charging low prices:a cheap restaurant inexpensive because of inferior quality:cheap, shoddy goods
2of little worth because achieved in a discreditable way requiring little effort:her moment of cheap triumph deserving contempt:a cheap trick North American informal miserly:she’s too cheap to send me a postcard
at or for a low price:a house that was going cheap because of the war