Cheapjack
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A peddler, a travelling hawker.
""Why," rejoined Mrs Cadwallader, with a sharper note, "you don't mean to say that you would like him to turn public man in that way—making a sort of political Cheap Jack of himself?""
- 2 a peddler of inferior goods wordnet
Adjective
- 1 shabby
"It was a drab, cheapjack little area, unambiguously removed from the public, and yet I had come to love it in a way I never could the rest of the monstruous edifice."
Adjective
- 1 made of inferior workmanship and materials wordnet
Example
More examples"The village is rife with dirty shops selling cheapjack souvenirs."
Etymology
From cheap + Jack.
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