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'.
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