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Definition of "cheap-jack" [cheap•-jack]

  • A seller of low-priced, shoddy, or second goods; a hawker. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "cheap-jack" in a sentence
  • "Longitudinal Slum, according to J.B. Jackson, is “an intermittent eyesore of drive-ins, diners, souvenir stands, purulent amusement parks, cheap-jack restaurants, and the kind of cabins my companion describes as mailboxes.”"
  • "Mushroom development had brought cheap-jack construction."
  • "Mordacks, who lives in a den below a bridge in York, and has very long harassed the law by a sort of cheap-jack, slap-dash, low-minded style of doing things."