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cheapjack

a. shabby n. A peddler, a travelling hawker.

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cheapjack

adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist [syn: shoddy, tawdry]

Usage examples of "cheapjack".

How much more of this cheapjack bullshit can we be expected to take from that stupid little gunsel?

Softly spoken menacing cheapjacks, prefabricated units in a gigantic instrument of intimidation.

As companies came and went, each more cheapjack than the one before, leaving their failures behind them to poison the land, the whole surface of the planet gradually disappeared under deserted factories, installations, and other high-tech junk.

Or that I'd been playing piano in cheapjack speakeasies for nothing more than drinks and whatever change the Doras and ossified lounge lizards could spare.