Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A seller of low-priced, shoddy, or second goods; a hawker.
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- noun a seller of shoddy goods
- adjective cheap and shoddy
- noun a peddler of inferior goods
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Examples
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Longitudinal Slum, according to J.B. Jackson, is “an intermittent eyesore of drive-ins, diners, souvenir stands, purulent amusement parks, cheap-jack restaurants, and the kind of cabins my companion describes as mailboxes.”
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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Longitudinal Slum, according to J.B. Jackson, is “an intermittent eyesore of drive-ins, diners, souvenir stands, purulent amusement parks, cheap-jack restaurants, and the kind of cabins my companion describes as mailboxes.”
Prunings XXVII 2007
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Mushroom development had brought cheap-jack construction.
What Went Wrong 2008
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Mordacks, who lives in a den below a bridge in York, and has very long harassed the law by a sort of cheap-jack, slap-dash, low-minded style of doing things.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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The sooner these cheap-jack gerrymanders of British policy realise that the
The Silver Spoon 2004
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His ponderous declaration: “I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy,” was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his
Balzac 2003
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But that old clown Circumstance was piping in the market-place, shewing his cheap-jack wares to catch the fancies of the maidens, and my sweetheart, caught in the excitement of the moment, presently paid down for one of his flashy baubles no less a price than her own young heart.
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The law, wrote M. Jusserand, distinguished very clearly between an educated physician and a cheap-jack of the cross-ways.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his _Comedie Humaine_.
Balzac Frederick Lawton
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His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his Comedie Humaine.
Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910
Gammerstang commented on the word cheap-jack
(noun) - (1) A travelling hawker, who sells by Dutch auction, i.e., reduces the price of his wares until he finds a purchaser. From Anglo-Saxon chepe, a market. Sometimes cheap-John.
--Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922
(2) Cheap-jackery, that which is characteristic of a cheap-jack.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1893
January 17, 2018