cheap-jack

1. 1.

   a seller of shoddy goods

   Synonymshuckster

   Broaderseller

Questions about cheap-jack

What does cheap-jack mean?

cheap-jack means "a seller of shoddy goods".

How many syllables are in cheap-jack?

cheap-jack has 3 syllables: che-ap--jack. The stress falls on "che".

What is another word for cheap-jack?

Close synonyms include huckster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cheap-jack a common word?

cheap-jack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.