Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who produces or deals in inferior or shoddy goods or material.
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- noun slang, derogatory A writer of
schlock ; anauthor ,film director , etc. who produces tasteless and inferior works.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Roger Ebert wrote this insane cult classic directed by schlockmeister Russ Meyer about an all-girl rock band that travels to Hollywood with big dreams.
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Roger Ebert wrote this insane cult classic directed by schlockmeister Russ Meyer about an all-girl rock band that travels to Hollywood with big dreams.
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Another masterwork mash-up of various Korean animations by Hong Kong schlockmeister Joseph Lai, watching this movie will redefine "pain" in your mind.
Movie : Space Transformer (1983) Zen Tiger 2010
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Rush Limbaugh, talk radio's schlockmeister, also gets a few seconds of attention from Stewart, but fortunately not much.
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Together, he and Mr. Lennon were characterized respectively as “the schlockmeister and the professor.”
Swayze Scores Big Memoir, But Will Two Books on Dirty Dancer Be Too Many? 2009
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This double-disk re-release gets you two classic flims from shock-schlockmeister Al Adamson.
Five Bloody Graves / Nurse Sherri (DVD Review) « Skid Roche 2007
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Together, he and Mr. Lennon were characterized respectively as “the schlockmeister and the professor.”
Swayze Scores Big Memoir, But Will Two Books on Dirty Dancer Be Too Many? 2009
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Reading up on the movie it was the first sequal of the series, or the first step from being a cool 60s art film to a schlockmeister 70s sequel.
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The Wall Street Journal attacked the company as "our era's undisputed schlockmeister," and Madonna, the faux dominatrix, as "a schlockmistress."
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Joseph E. Levine was known as “an enormously successful schlockmeister,” says Turman.
The Making of "The Graduate" Kashner, Sam 2008
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