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

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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.

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