cheapjack adjective 1noun 1forms 3 adjective1 •shabbyIt 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. — 1988 noun1 •A peddler, a travelling hawker."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?" — 1871 formscheapjacks · more cheapjack · most cheapjack