Schlock Definition

zhläk
noun
Anything cheap or inferior; trash.
Webster's New World
Tasteless comedy horror movies or theatre designed to shock people.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Cheap; inferior.
Webster's New World

Origin of Schlock

  • Possibly from Yiddish shlak apoplexy, stroke, wretch, evil, nuisance from Middle High German slag, slak stroke from slahen to strike from Old High German slahan

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Yiddish שלאַק (shlak), related to German Schlacke/Schlag.

    From Wiktionary

Schlock Sentence Examples

  • Even the schlock horror backdrop of bloodstains made me vaguely uneasy.

  • It purports to be serious, in contrast to the stage-managed schlock of something like Jerry Springer.

  • The New Yorker was less kind, dubbing him a ' schlock merchant '.

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