Noun: schlock
| Singular | schlock |
| Plural | schlocks |
Sample Sentences
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Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp and porn. [1978, Don DeLillo, Running Dog, New York: Knopf, page 148:]
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“The Kingdom of the Wicked” is not Mr. Burgess at the top of his bent. It is not schlock. It is too individual, too original for that; […]. [1985 September 22, John Crowley, “St. Paul Meets Nero”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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And just because leftoids make tripe from their position of strength is no reason for trads to make schlock from their position of weakness. [2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind:]
Nouns inflected like schlock
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Yiddish שלאַק (shlak), related to German Schlag (“blow, strike, hit”). See: German Nouns '
Schlag'.