Cheapjack
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cheapjack is a noun meaning A peddler, a travelling hawker.
Meaning
A peddler, a travelling hawker.
Example Sentences
I was much too timid and didn't have the cheap-jack’s boasting patter.
On the day after the riot he came upon a score of people collected round a Cheap Jack in the market.
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.
"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?"
Word Forms
- cheapjacks
- cheap-jack
Synonyms for cheapjack
Depending on context, synonyms include chapman, tawdry, inferior, shoddy.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tawdry, shoddy, inferior, jagger, hawker, handseller.
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