dirt cheap

adjective or adverb

: exceedingly cheap

Examples of dirt cheap in a Sentence

a dirt cheap little house that was the proverbial fixer-upper
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The company, best known for its trendy clothing at dirt cheap prices, was last valued at $66 billion in a funding round in 2023. Zinnia Lee, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 That’s the ticket: elevated-seeming glassware that’s actually dirt cheap. Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2025 If development is dirt cheap, products don’t need to have enormous value or massive reach. Gina Chua, semafor.com, 5 June 2025 So many essential gardening tools are — pardon the pun — dirt cheap at Amazon. Clint Davis, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dirt cheap

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of dirt cheap was in 1819

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“Dirt cheap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirt%20cheap. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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