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Definition of Cheapjack
1. Adjective. Cheap and shoddy. "Cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"
2. Noun. A peddler of inferior goods.
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
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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