Meanings
plural schlockmeisters
- CanadaUSderogatoryslangA writer of schlock; an author, film director, etc. who produces tasteless and inferior works.
Or he could be viewed as a schlockmeister lowering standards for an inarticulate public, especially women—so often conceived as mass-cultural dupes.
2014, Eric Weisbard, Top 40 Democracy […] , University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 41 more example
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.
2022, Adam Levin, Mount Chicago, Doubleday, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From schlock + -meister, originally “seller of inferior goods”.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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