schlock
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 7
/ʃlɒk/
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/ʃlɒk/ · /ʃlɑk/
Definition of schlock
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Yiddish שלאַק (shlak), related to German Schlag (“blow, strike, hit”).
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