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dirt-cheap

[ durt-cheep ]

/ ˈdɜrtˈtʃip /

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adjective

very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.

adverb

cheaply: They got it dirt-cheap.

Origin of dirt-cheap

First recorded in 1815–25

Words nearby dirt-cheap

dirt dauber, dirt farm, dirt farmer, dirt poor, dirt road, dirt-cheap, dirt-eating, dirt-poor, dirty, dirty bomb, dirty joke

Example sentences from the Web for dirt-cheap

Consider Spirit Airlines, the dirt-cheap carrier everyone loves to loathe.

Solution to Seat Rage: No More Reclining |Will Doig |September 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And we can sell it so dirt-cheap that the whole country has GOT to take it—can't get around it you see.

Life On The Mississippi, Part 8. |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
But the Assyrians (like the Romans after them) could avail themselves of a limitless amount of dirt-cheap labour.

The Cradle of Mankind |W.A. Wigram
And we can sell it so dirt-cheap that the whole country has got to take it—can't get around it you see.

Life On The Mississippi, Complete |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Well, no, not labels: been buying them abroad—get them dirt-cheap there.

Life On The Mississippi, Complete |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
I had no time to inquire much about the pigs, but a man told me that they were dirt-cheap.

Rural Rides |William Cobbett

British Dictionary definitions for dirt-cheap

dirt-cheap

adjective, adverb

informal at an extremely low price