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schlock colloq. (chiefly N. Amer.).|ʃlɒk|
Also schlag, shlock.
[Yiddish, app. f. shlogn to strike.]
Cheap, shoddy, or defective goods; inferior material, junk, ‘trash’ (freq. applied to the arts or entertainment). Also attrib. or as adj., and Comb. in ˈschlockmeister, -master [G. meister master], a purveyor of cheap merchandise, ‘special offers’, and the like.
1915N.Y. Tribune 25 July 12/1 Damaged articles..are sold..to the..‘schlock’ store proprietors. 1916Ibid. 10 Jan. 14/1 There is nothing ‘schlock’ about the Goodell method. 1939Amer. Speech XIV. 80/2 Schlag describes a skirt which has scant length, tightness where it should be full, is off size, has many loose threads, defective buttons, and off size button-holes. 1963T. Pynchon V. iv. 110 She loves my rhinoplasty But the others are schlock. 1965J. M. Ullman Good Night, Irene i. 20 Public relations, an elastic term that encompasses everything from crude schlockmeisters operating out of phone booths to high⁓powered representatives of billion-dollar corporations. 1966L. Deighton Billion-Dollar Brain xv. 142 The schlock-shops were afire with sale signs and smiling suckers. 1970Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 30/1 The most successful..have substituted sociological satire for sentimental schlock. 1972Publishers Weekly 21 Aug. 71/3 Shlock fiction with all the necessary ingredients, the result is mindlessly entertaining, if rather tasteless. 1976New Mus. Express 31 July 37/1 Presley was already showing..an inclination to go in for schlock rather than rock. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xii. 131, I knew it [sc. magazine writing] was schlock, but still I loved it. Ibid. xxxiii. 388 He had signed a long-term contract with Tri-Culture and become the ace schlockmaster for Jeff Wagon. 1981Listener 26 Feb. 294/1 Atkinson is more fun away from showbiz schlock.
Hence ˈschlocky a., characterized by schlock; that is schlock; shoddy, trashy.
1968N.Y. Times 25 July 26 Playing the ‘special guest star’ in a series of schlocky European films. 1970Wall St. Jrnl. (Eastern ed.) 10 Sept. 1/6 The schlocky corner gas station import dealer is gone. 1975Publishers Weekly 1 Dec. 67/2 Just what the marketplace doesn't need, one more schlocky Gothic series. 1981Spectator 24 Jan. 7/2 The concentration on Sinatra arises out of the suspicion that the Reagan entourage of friends and hangers-on is loaded with shabby, shady, schlocky, smarmy, shyster millionaires. |