cheapjack
Collocations
4ADJ.
dirty, little
VERB + CHEAPJACK
selling, shops
CHEAPJACK + NOUN
area, souvenirs
ADV.
unambiguously
Definitions
noun
A peddler, a travelling hawker.
"Why," rejoined Mrs Cadwallader, with a sharper note, "you don't mean to say that you would like him to turn public man in that way—making a sort of political Cheap Jack of himself?"
On the day after the riot he came upon a score of people collected round a Cheap Jack in the market.
adj
shabby
It was a drab, cheapjack little area, unambiguously removed from the public, and yet I had come to love it in a way I never could the rest of the monstruous edifice.
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5"Why," rejoined Mrs Cadwallader, with a sharper note, "you don't mean to say that you would like him to turn public man in that way—making a sort of political Cheap Jack of himself?"
WiktionaryOn the day after the riot he came upon a score of people collected round a Cheap Jack in the market.
WiktionaryMy mother and father was standing against the railings by the market, looking over at the fire-swallower and the cheap-jack and the Salvation Army down below; and the German Band was playing round the
WiktionaryIt was a drab, cheapjack little area, unambiguously removed from the public, and yet I had come to love it in a way I never could the rest of the monstruous edifice.
WiktionaryThe village is rife with dirty shops selling cheapjack souvenirs.
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