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cheapjacks

cheapjacks is the plural 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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Questions about cheapjacks

What is cheapjacks the plural of?
Cheapjacks is the plural of cheapjack.

Words near cheapjacks in the dictionary

  1. cheaping
  2. cheaping out
  3. cheapish
  4. cheapishly
  5. cheapjack
  6. cheapjacks
  7. cheaplier
  8. cheaply
  9. cheapness
  10. cheapnesses
  11. cheapo

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