cheap-jack

American  

[cheep-jak] / ˈtʃipˌdʒæk /

Also cheapjack,

noun

1. a peddler, especially of inferior articles.

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adjective

1. of or suitable for a cheap-jack; cheap or inferior.

2. without scruples or principles; underhanded.

   using cheap-jack methods to evict tenants.

cheap-jack British  

noun

1. a person who sells cheap and shoddy goods

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adjective

1. shoddy or inferior

Etymology

Origin of cheap-jack

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

The Internet is a souk of cheap-jack merchandise — banners, flags, hats, bumper stickers, T-shirts — aimed at poor saps suckered into Trump’s phony war.

From Washington Post

Then again, it might be another cheap-jack moment waiting to take you down.

From New York Times

Motor-buses of the most brutal sort have replaced the old carriages, Bond and Regent Streets are cheap-jack shows, everything is tumultuous and confused and has run down in quality.

From Project Gutenberg

As a friend of mine said, a cheap-jack would not give fourpence for anything left in P�ronne, and that is true, also, of Bapaume.

From Project Gutenberg

A thin gentleman with furs, puzzle boxes, and other cheap-jack gear was not much called upon though called at. 97Two Englishmen came also, sellers of furs; one, of my own Division in France.

From Project Gutenberg