Crossword clues for schlock
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"trash," 1915, from American Yiddish shlak, from German Schlacke "dregs, scum, dross" (see slag (n.)). Alternative etymology [OED] is from Yiddish shlogn "to strike" (cognate with German schlagen; see slay). Derived form schlockmeister "purveyor of cheap merchandise" is from 1965. Adjectival form schlocky is attested from 1968; schlock was used as an adjective from 1916.
Wiktionary
n. Commodity that is shoddy or inferior.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Schlock may refer to:
- Schlock (film), a 1973 film by John Landis
- Shlock Rock, a Jewish rock band formed in 1985
- Dr. Irving Schlock, a character in the 1997 webcomic Sluggy Freelance
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Schlock Mercenary, a webcomic by Howard Tayler created in 2000
- Sergeant Schlock, the title character of Schlock Mercenary
Schlock is a 1973 low-budget comedy horror film, written, directed by and starring filmmaker John Landis.
Usage examples of "schlock".
Even they, lowest of the low, incapable or unwilling to go against the formidable odds when attempting to produce High Art, understood that Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The 400 Blows and La Str ada and King Kong-- by chance or intent -- transcended the callow commercial goals set by the secret cabal of Schlock Entrepreneurs and Anal Retentive Intellectuals.
You can jam, you can whistle, you can hum, you can do top-forty AM schlock, you can just stand there and shout at the audience.
Her eyes fastened on Lilly, who was watching a green-haired skateboarder, Emma had breezed past the finest art and the tackiest schlock without so much as a glance.
Or rather what the schlock tabloids are saying about me, and the respectable media are intimating.
Rodent left the park buffered with thousands of unspoiled acres, to keep the charmless roadside schlock at bay.
So this was what it came to, Ebdus the bridge between Ashcan school schlock and photorealist dragons, a momentary interlude.
Big Name Fans with reps as fanzine reviewers of low-brow space opera and elves-and-dragons schlock, inveigle an innocent academic critic into taking part in the animal act, add two science fiction writers, one with pretensions to literary ambitions, namely Dexter, and one to proclaim that he was only in it to separate Joe from his beer money, namely that flaming red asshole Garret Selby.
Her eyes fastened on Lilly, who was watching a green-haired skateboarder, Emma had breezed past the finest art and the tackiest schlock without so much as a glance.
Directed by a man, Sam Raimi, who exults in the cheesy exuberance of American schlock film (see Army of Darkness, 1993), but who is also capable of gravitas and grace (see 1998's A Simple Plan), Spider-Man was a bright-colored, high-energy popcorn flick that, while not exactly deep, was less shallow than expected.
This many years, you laboring with the kiddie schlock, me languishing in the sticks.
Easy choice: The land side was shopping centers and pizza joints and schlock shops not much different from what he’.
When the mass audience develops a new hunger, there is never a shortage of schlock meisters eager to cash in on the latest fast-food craze by peddling Kentucky Fried Spaceships or Colonel Future's Fish and Chips.