Meaning of cheapjack | Babel Free

Definitions

A peddler, a travelling hawker.

Examples

“"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.”

“I was much too timid and didn't have the cheap-jack’s boasting patter.”

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