Definitions
n. A store or company that sells of produces cheap, inferior products.
Example Sentences
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"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)
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"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)
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"This place is a real schlock house." (source)
Languages of Origin
- Yiddish
- English
Etymology
perhaps from Yiddish שלאַק shlak 'stroke, apoplexy; calamity; pest' or שלאָג shlog 'hit, stroke' + English 'house'
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- North America
- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
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Alternative Spellings
shlock house, shlack house, shlack-house, shlok-house, shlok house, shlak-house, shlak house
Notes
See also shlock.
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