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Definition of Cheapjacks
1. cheapjack [n] - See also: cheapjack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheapjacks
Literary usage of Cheapjacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1896)
"... and phonographs; small shows of inconceivable squalor where women, thin,
unwashed, and half-starved, shiver in a hideous undress; tumblers, cheapjacks; ..."
2. National Ideals and Problems: Essays for College English by Maurice Garland Fulton (1918)
"... ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss
of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. ..."
3. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) (1885)
"For many years we have devoted ourselves, with considerable success, to being
the cheapjacks of the world. We have been able to effect this by the aid of ..."
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