schlockmeister

English

Etymology

schlock +‎ -meister, originally “seller of inferior goods”.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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.

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “schlockmeister n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang