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)

  1. (slang, derogatory, chiefly Canada, US) A writer of schlock; an author, film director, etc. who produces tasteless and inferior works.
    • 2014, Eric Weisbard, Top 40 Democracy [] , University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 4:
      Or he could be viewed as a schlockmeister lowering standards for an inarticulate public, especially women—so often conceived as mass-cultural dupes.
    • 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.

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