shlock-house

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Definitions

  • n. A store or company that sells of produces cheap, inferior products.

Example Sentences

  • "These shmegeges can tout their shlock house shpilkis about the cultural and linguistic diversity of our country, but I, for one, am not buying their shtick." (source)

  • "In the late fifties, movies about giant monsters were popular, many of them produced by the shlock-house of American International Pictures, and filming a bevy of half-clad starlets had never gone out of style, so producer-director Roger Corman combined the two in this miserable would-be epic." (source)

  • "This place is a real schlock house." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish
  • English

Etymology

  • perhaps from Yiddish שלאַק shlak 'stroke, apoplexy; calamity; pest' or שלאָג shlog 'hit, stroke' + English 'house'

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).

      Alternative Spellings

      shlock house, shlack house, shlack-house, shlok-house, shlok house, shlak-house, shlak house

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