Crossword clues for knockoff
The Collaborative International Dictionary
knockoff \knock"off\, n. A cheap imitation of something popular, produced illegally without a license from the trademark owner, and of inferior materials. [Also spelled knock-off.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cheap imitation," 1966, from the verbal phrase knock off "do hastily;" in reference to the casual way the things are made.
Wiktionary
n. An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually lower in quality and price than the original.
WordNet
n. an unauthorized copy or imitation [syn: clone]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "knockoff".
He wore a gold watch that was a cheap knockoff of a gawdy Rolex, and he looked the part of a fat, self-indulgent businessman taking it easy while his minions worked their asses off to give him the good life.
Looking around the office where she waited for Cheryl, Grace was particularly glad she had worn the little Chanel knockoff.
You see knockoffs everywhere but these are original, worn-out by now, the black leather browning at the edges.
When they aren't competing for prizes, or riding one of the Six Flags knockoff rides, they eat food with little or no nutritional value: saltwater taffy, frozen custard, caramel apples, cotton candy.
Here the wares tended more toward the tacky or the weird, tables full of shell magnets and ceramic crawfish salt shakers alternating with stands that sold leather jewelry, boot knives, essential oils and bundles of incense and suspicious-looking cassette knockoffs of whatever CDs the vendor had recently bought.
Stoat turned his attention to an effervescent brunette who wasn't smoking a seven-inch Cuban knockoff so much as fellating it.
There were so many colorful Polo shirts or Polo-shirt knockoffs in the restaurant that a visitor from another planet might have assumed that Ralph Lauren was either the deity of a major religion or dictator of the world.
He sported a silver lip ring, and a cheap knockoff of one of the more popular wrist units.