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n. - (slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Some high-minded critics sniffed at Tartikoff's pursuing Spelling, whom they considered a shlockmeister.
  • And is a good idea because as the years go by the beatles and there music will always be popular and they deserve something like this after all they are only the greatest...
  • Yet the moment finally came, and I found myself confronting myself across a whore's bed-the unemployed schoolboy with the long black hair and beard on one side, the successful...
  • Herschell Gordon Lewis, shlockmeister behind The Gore Gore Girls and Monster a-Go Go, unleashes a new gorefest called Go here to pre-purchase.
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