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English
Etymology
From schlock + -meister, originally “seller of inferior goods”.
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Noun
schlockmeister (plural schlockmeisters)
- (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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