cheapjack

Other forms of cheapjack

plural

cheapjacks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cheapjack

What does cheapjack mean?

cheapjack means "a peddler of inferior goods". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cheapjack?

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

What is another word for cheapjack?

Close synonyms include shoddy, tawdry. 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 cheapjack a common word?

cheapjack 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.