cheapjack
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cheapjack
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From cheap + Jack.
noun cheapjacks · cheap-jack · Cheap Jack
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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?"
Similar: chapman, cheap John
adjective more cheapjack · most cheapjack · cheap-jack · Cheap Jack
- 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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| Deutsch | billiger Jakob, Billigheimer |
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