cheapjack

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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.
   • My 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 corner of the Commercial Arcade.
2. 2

   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.

The neighborhood