go cheap

verb

To be sold at a low price.

“Most of the auction lots went cheap.”

Meanings

verbgo cheap (third-person singular simple present goes cheap, present participle going cheap, simple past went cheap, past participle gone cheap)

present singular third person goes cheap · participle present going cheap · past went cheap · participle past gone cheap

  1. informalTo be sold at a low price.

    Most of the auction lots went cheap.

    1 more example

    The manufacturer made too many of these phones, so now they're going cheap.

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Chicago

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