schlock
noun/ʃlɒk/
/ʃlɑːk/
[uncountable] (North American English, informal)- things that are cheap and of poor quality
- stores full of schlock
Word Originearly 20th cent.: apparently from Yiddish shlak ‘an apoplectic stroke’, shlog ‘wretch, untidy person, apoplectic stroke’.Want to learn more?
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