schlock

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
20
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ʃlɒk/
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/ʃlɒk/ · /ʃlɑk/

Definition of schlock

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, colloquial, countable, uncountable)Any commodity that is shoddy or inferior; now, usually, writing or audiovisual content that is shoddy or inferior.
    “Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp and porn.”
    ““The Kingdom of the Wicked” is not Mr. Burgess at the top of his bent. It is not schlock. It is too individual, too original for that; […].”
    “And just because leftoids make tripe from their position of strength is no reason for trads to make schlock from their position of weakness.”

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Etymology

From Yiddish שלאַק (shlak), related to German Schlag (“blow, strike, hit”).

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