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Definition of cheapjack in English: cheapjacknounˈtʃiːpdʒakˈtʃipˌdʒæk A seller of cheap inferior goods, typically a hawker at a fair or market. Example sentencesExamples - The days when the farmer was the cheapjack are over.
- A cheapjack calling himself Dr Marigold took pity on this deaf and dumb child who resembled his daughter who had died.
- However, it can scarcely have always been so, unless every fairground showman, circus performer, strolling player, cheapjack and Punch and Judy man in history was gay, which seems somewhat unlikely.
adjectiveˈtʃiːpdʒakˈtʃipˌdʒæk North American Of inferior quality. Example sentencesExamples - And so, you find the bizarreness of a funeral being transformed into a cheapjack political rally - and none of the participants realizing how utterly ghastly that looks to normal people.
- But the cheapjack production values and inconsistent animation constitute serious and sad disappointments.
- The director decided to take ‘the opportunity to beat his cheapjack imitators at their own game’.
- I looked forward to that, and began reading avidly, but soon the sonnets went off into a very cheapjack self parody, and I thought oh, how easy!
- It was a cheapjack company that paid writers and artists at rates ranging from poor to involuntary servitude, then printed their wares on presses that were outmoded.
Synonyms poor-quality, second-rate, third-rate, substandard, low-grade, inferior, common, vulgar, shoddy, trashy, rubbishy, tawdry, tinny, brassy, worthless, meretricious, cheap and nasty, gimcrack, brummagem, pinchbeck
Origin Mid 19th century: from cheap + jack1. Definition of cheapjack in US English: cheapjacknounˈtʃipˌdʒækˈCHēpˌjak A seller of cheap inferior goods, typically a hawker at a fair or market. Example sentencesExamples - However, it can scarcely have always been so, unless every fairground showman, circus performer, strolling player, cheapjack and Punch and Judy man in history was gay, which seems somewhat unlikely.
- A cheapjack calling himself Dr Marigold took pity on this deaf and dumb child who resembled his daughter who had died.
- The days when the farmer was the cheapjack are over.
adjectiveˈtʃipˌdʒækˈCHēpˌjak North American Of inferior quality. Example sentencesExamples - It was a cheapjack company that paid writers and artists at rates ranging from poor to involuntary servitude, then printed their wares on presses that were outmoded.
- But the cheapjack production values and inconsistent animation constitute serious and sad disappointments.
- The director decided to take ‘the opportunity to beat his cheapjack imitators at their own game’.
- I looked forward to that, and began reading avidly, but soon the sonnets went off into a very cheapjack self parody, and I thought oh, how easy!
- And so, you find the bizarreness of a funeral being transformed into a cheapjack political rally - and none of the participants realizing how utterly ghastly that looks to normal people.
Synonyms poor-quality, second-rate, third-rate, substandard, low-grade, inferior, common, vulgar, shoddy, trashy, rubbishy, tawdry, tinny, brassy, worthless, meretricious, cheap and nasty, gimcrack, brummagem, pinchbeck
Origin Mid 19th century: from cheap + jack. |