cheap-jack

a person who sells cheap and shoddy goods

adj

shoddy or inferior

[C19: from cheap + Jack (name used to typify a person)]

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cheap′-jack`

or cheap′jack`,

1. a peddler, esp. of inferior articles.

adj.

2. cheap or inferior.

3. unscrupulous or underhanded.

[1850–55]

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Noun

cheap-jack - a seller of shoddy goods

huckster

marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

Translations

cheap-jack

[ˈtʃiːpdʒæk]

A. ADJ [product] → de bajísima calidad, malísimo; [furniture] → muy mal hecho; [person] → chapucero

B. N (= person) → chapucero/a m/f, baratillero m

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cheap-jack

adj → Ramsch- (pej)

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It was reported that he had followed up his former misconduct by calling his father-in-law a liar, and that he had ordered a common tombstone from some cheap-jack at the East-end.

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Here the glib politician crying his legislative panaceas, and here the peripatetic Cheap-Jack holding aloft his quack cures for human ills.

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Marigold's Prescriptions" (1865) the cheap-jack protagonist takes an active part in his blind daughter Sophy's learning to communicate and become a fully integrated member of the hearing world.

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Down - 2 Cheap-jack; 3 Ill; 4 Governor; 5 Helot; 6 Fitness; 7 Oread; 8 Apostles' creed; 9 Expatriate; 12 American dream; 14 Opposed; 18 Earthed; 19 Effeminacy; 22 Leg warmer; 23 Billhead; 25 Ravioli; 28 Utter; 29 Copal; 32 Eel.

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I say this is cheap-jack programming which relies upon the audience being gulled into entertaining itself.