| 1. | a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill. |
| 2. | a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to skill, knowledge, or qualifications he or she does not possess; a charlatan. |
| 3. | being a quack: a quack psychologist who complicates everyone's problems. |
| 4. | presented falsely as having curative powers: quack medicine. |
| 5. | of, pertaining to, or befitting a quack or quackery: quack methods. |
| 6. | to treat in the manner of a quack. |
| 7. | to advertise or sell with fraudulent claims. |
quack (kwāk)
n.
An untrained person who pretends to be a physician and dispenses medical advice and treatment.
A charlatan.