What does cheapjack mean?
Cheapjack means A peddler, a travelling hawker..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A peddler, a travelling hawker..
I was much too timid and didn't have the cheap-jack’s boasting patter.
"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?"
On the day after the riot he came upon a score of people collected round a Cheap Jack in the market.
My mother and father was standing against the railings by the market, looking over at the fire-swallower and the cheap-jack and the Salvation Army down below; and the German Band was playing round the corner of the Commercial Arcade.
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.
Use cheapjack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cheapjack means A peddler, a travelling hawker..
Common synonyms include chapman, cheap John, tawdry, inferior.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I was much too timid and didn't have the cheap-jack’s boasting patter.
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