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cheap-jack

/cheep-jak/US // ˈtʃipˌdʒæk //UK // informal //

便宜货,便宜的杰克,便宜点,便宜点的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a peddler, especially of inferior articles.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or suitable for a cheap-jack; cheap or inferior.
    • : without scruples or principles; underhanded: using cheap-jack methods to evict tenants.

Examples

  • In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.

  • Betrayal…you can hear it…betraying the thing he loves for a cheap bit of film publicity.

  • Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.

  • Riffing off the slogan “Now Everyone Can Fly,” the carrier offered no-frills flights that were both cheap and plentiful.

  • Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.

  • Cheap as they are, they are a poorer speculation than even corner lots in a lithographic city of Nebraska or Oregon.

  • Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.

  • She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.

  • How on earth can Jack find time to think about women with the immense amount of work he gets through?

  • In 1205 wheat was worth 12 pence per bushel, which was cheap, as there had been some years of famine previous thereto.