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cheap-jack

cheap-jack is the alternative form of cheapjack.

Meaning of cheapjack

Noun

cheapjack (plural cheapjacks)

  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?"1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VI, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 93
    Synonyms:
    chapman, cheap John

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Forms of cheap-jack

Noun
pluralcheap-jacks
Adjective
comparativemore cheap-jack
superlativemost cheap-jack

Questions about cheap-jack

What is cheap-jack the alternative form of?
Cheap-jack is the alternative form of cheapjack.

Words near cheap-jack in the dictionary

  1. cheap-arse
  2. cheap-arse Tuesday
  3. cheap-arse Tuesdays
  4. cheap-arses
  5. cheap-as-chips
  6. cheap-jack
  7. cheap-jacks
  8. cheap-shot
  9. cheap-shots
  10. cheap-shotted
  11. cheap-shotting

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