cheap-jack in English
noun
1
a seller of cheap inferior goods, typically a hawker at a fair or market.
A cheapjack calling himself Dr Marigold took pity on this deaf and dumb child who resembled his daughter who had died.
adjective
1
of inferior quality.
It was a cheapjack company that paid writers and artists at rates ranging from poor to involuntary servitude, then printed their wares on presses that were outmoded.
Use "cheap-jack" in a sentence
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1. The young cheap - Jack had got the gift of gab.
2. He took out of his waistcoat pocket a large watch which he had bought years before from a cheap-Jack at a fair.