Definition of Cheapjack

1. Noun. A peddler of inferior goods.

Generic synonyms: Hawker, Packman, Peddler, Pedlar, Pitchman

2. Adjective. Cheap and shoddy. "Cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"
Exact synonyms: Shoddy, Tawdry
Similar to: Inferior
Derivative terms: Shoddiness, Tawdriness

Definition of Cheapjack

1. n. A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

Definition of Cheapjack

1. Noun. A peddler, a travelling hawker. ¹

2. Adjective. shabby ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cheapjack

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheapjack

cheapdate
cheapen
cheapened
cheapener
cheapeners
cheapening
cheapens
cheaper
cheaper by the dozen
cheapest
cheapie
cheapies
cheaping
cheapish
cheapishly
cheapjack (current term)
cheapjacks
cheaply
cheapness
cheapnesses
cheapo
cheapos
cheaps
cheapshot
cheapshots
cheapskate
cheapskates
cheapstead
cheapy
chear

Literary usage of Cheapjack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Singing Caravan: A Sufi Tale by Robert Gilbert Vansittart Vansittart (1919)
"... THE TALE OF THE cheapjack AMONG the fruit-trees still he slumbers. All Mourned for their brother with one heavy heart. Even Tous drooped, swaying weakly ..."

2. The Ancient Classical Drama: A Study in Literary Evolution Intended for by Richard Green Moulton (1890)
"... the latter presents it; the Review would declare that a statesman's over-vaunting of his policy descended to the level of a cheapjack's advertisement, ..."

3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"A melodrama by Wigan, entitled ' Rag Fair,' in which he played a cheapjack called Brightside, was given at the Victoria on 20 May 1872. ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"These are not the characteristics of the small man grown accidentally great or of the mere cynical journalistic cheapjack. Indeed, Lord Northcliffe was much ..."

5. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century) by Jean Jules Jusserand (1891)
"However, the law distinguished very clearly between a court physician and a cheapjack of the cross-ways. A Gaddesden had the support of an established ..."

6. The Exemplary Theatre by Harley Granville-Barker (1922)
"But that is cheapjack estimation. Due cultivation makes a difference which amounts almost to an organic change. ..."

7. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"In the disguise of a cheapjack he tramps the country, and delivers addresses in which praise of his wares is cleverly mixed up with abuse of a ..."

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