shoddy dropper
noun Australian /NZ dated
An itinerant seller of poor-quality clothes: police have warned the area’s retailers to watch out for shoddy droppers...
- Of the hawkers, two dealt in a drop of sly grog and the other was a shoddy dropper.
- The shoddy-droppers were a common sight around Murrays Lane.
- The scheme of wearing a seaman's cap and representing that they could sell cloth cheap was a trick resorted to by 'shoddy droppers'.
Origin
1920s: from shoddy in the noun sense 'inferior fabric made from waste clippings' + drop in the verb sense 'to unload goods'.
- take (or pick) up the slack
- take (or plead) the Fifth
- take (or plead) the Fifth Amendment
- takeout
- take-out double
- take over
- takeover
- takeover bid
- takeover bidder
- take part
- take place
- take pleasure in
- taker
- taker-in
- taker meer
- taker-off
- take root
- taker-up
- take shape
- take ship
- Takeshita, Noboru
- take sides
- take silk
- take some doing
- take someone aback