schlockmeister

[shlok-mahy-ster]

noun

Slang.

1. a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schlockmeister¹

1960–65, schlock + Yiddish mayster or German Meister master craftsman; Middle High German meister, Old High German meistar < Latin magister; master

Example Sentences

By then, he had acquired a “schlockmeister” reputation, as he put it, for directing broad and sometimes bawdy comedies.

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But high art was never his ambition, and his sensibility in his waning years was closer to schlockmeisters like Russ Meyer than provocateurs like Arbus.

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The show also made room for, say, a segment in which John Waters exchanged notes with the gore schlockmeister Herschell Gordon Lewis and an entire episode about animals in film.

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While this was, indeed, a technical process that involved a great deal of skill and care, audiences eventually lumped it in with schlockmeisters like William Castle buzzing seats for the Vincent Price film The Tingler.

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Or he could be viewed as a schlockmeister lowering standards for an inarticulate public, especially women — so often conceived as mass-cultural dupes.

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