Plural of cheapie; multiple cheap or inexpensive items, usually of lower quality.
Cheapie plus -s, the standard English plural. The word inherits the informal -ie suffix from singular cheapie.
The rise of 'cheapies' in retail language reflects the 20th-century shift toward mass-produced goods—before industrialization, 'cheap' things were rare because almost everything was expensive to make by hand.
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