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skimp

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1. skimp - Noun

2. skimp - Adjective

3. skimp - Verb

Meaning

To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.

To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.

Scanty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym. Madonna (entertainer)

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it. Dakota Fanning

When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan. Summer Sanders

stint with the allowance Source: Internet

scratch and scrimp Source: Internet

By the way, as Beer points out, it’s tempting, in low-level code – especially if it is performance critical – to assume that untrusted data will have been sanitised already, and therefore to skimp on error checking code at the very point it matters most. Source: Internet

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