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US
/ˈskɹɪmp/
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[ UK /skɹˈɪmp/ ]
[ UK /skɹˈɪmp/ ]
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subsist on a meager allowance
scratch and scrimp
How To Use scrimp In A Sentence
- Every dollar I scrimped or saved barely had time to cool in my hands before it was in the cash register at the local store and I was on the way home with another addition to my racing stable.
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- Scrimping on safety measures can be a false economy.
- There were others like me, who had scrimped and saved to come to paradise for their dream vacation, only to wind up bent, folded, spindled and mutilated. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive
- I know our house is awful scrimpy, but we'd have some good times, anyhow. Lydia of the Pines
- After scrimping and saving more pennies, we mustered the low budget to get some promotional pressings done.
- You can get rich in several ways: by winning a lottery, marrying into money, inheriting wealth, suing, or careful scrimping and saving over a lifetime.
- `I'm glad the Italians didn't scrimp and save and move away, like the Whatchamacallits," said Anastasia, after two mouthfuls of spaghetti. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
- To a scrimpy and screwy man, of the type most abundant, such a position would have done a deal of harm, shutting him up into his own shell harder, and flinting its muricated horns against the world. Springhaven
- A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan