schlock

• shlock

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ʃlɒk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃlɑk/

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• Rhymes: -ɒk

schlock (countable and uncountable, plural schlocks)

1. (colloquial, US) Commodity that is shoddy or inferior.
   • 1978, Don DeLillo, Running Dog, New York: Knopf, page 148:

     Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp and porn.

• Jonathon Green (2024) “schlock n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang