penny pincher

1. 1.

   someone who is excessively careful with money (who pinches every penny before letting go of it)

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Questions about penny pincher

What does penny pincher mean?

penny pincher means "someone who is excessively careful with money (who pinches every penny before letting go of it)".

Is penny pincher a common word?

penny pincher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.