cheap-jack
noun
a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
cheapjack,
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a variation of
cheap-jack.
Example Sentences
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And the monsters themselves, despite the fact that 95% of The Asylum's budgets are spent on them, still look terminally cheapjack.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2010
Sophia found another job posing for photographs for the fumetti, the cheapjack Italian magazines that tell vivid stories with strips of pictures like U.S. comic books.
From Time Magazine Archive
What might have been a pitch-black comedy is a movie loaded down with cheapjack melodrama and sleazy yocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. went through a similar soul-searching in the early igoos, after the A.M.A. launched a crusade to put cheapjack, quick-quack medical-diploma mills out of business.
From Time Magazine Archive
The word "chap" takes its derivation from the Anglo-Saxon ceap price or bargain, and ceapean, to bargain, whence come the words "chop," to exchange; "cheap," "Cheapside," "Mealcheapen Street" in Worcester, "cheapjack," etc.
From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur H. Savory
