schlockmeister
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
schlock + -meister, originally “seller of inferior goods”.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
schlockmeister (plural schlockmeisters)
- (slang, derogatory, chiefly Canada, US) A writer of schlock; an author, film director, etc. who produces tasteless and inferior works.
- 2022, Adam Levin, Mount Chicago, Doubleday, →ISBN:
- Hearing Mamet call Spielberg a pretentious schlockmeister was even more shocking to the alderman—to all the aldermen present, in fact, and to Daley, too—than hearing him say he hadn't seen Private Ryan.
Further reading[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2024), “schlockmeister n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang