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cheap-jack
[ cheep-jak ]
noun
- a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
adjective
- of or suitable for a cheap-jack; cheap or inferior.
- without scruples or principles; underhanded:
using cheap-jack methods to evict tenants.
cheap-jack
noun
- a person who sells cheap and shoddy goods
adjective
- shoddy or inferior
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cheap-jack1
First recorded in 1850–55
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cheap-jack1
C19: from cheap + Jack (name used to typify a person)
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Example Sentences
Soon the voice of the cheap-Jack was heard mingling with the others on shore.
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As for the cheap-Jack fellows, let our master make 'em pay toll.
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He talked away like a Cheap Jack, and made such fun, people nearly died with laughing.
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Somehow this cheap-Jack way of getting out of doing any work by spending a little money, got my goat something fierce.
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The law, wrote M. Jusserand, distinguished very clearly between an educated physician and a cheap-jack of the cross-ways.
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