Noun
A peddler, a travelling hawker.
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"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.
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Ten minutes after the rise of the curtain on the fourth act I was in the dressing-room, presenting the maid with a gold locket which I had bought from a cheapjack’s barrow for five and twenty francs—almost the last of the fifty which I had received from M. Duval on account.
Relieving office here. Good biz for cheapjacks, organs. What do ye lack?
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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.
I was much too timid and didn't have the cheap-jack’s boasting patter.
Adjective
shabby
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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.
Adjective
made of inferior workmanship and materials
Noun
a peddler of inferior goods