cheapjack

noun 1adj 1

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noun

1

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

1

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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