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“schlockmeister”
1. A purveyor or producer of cheap or trashy goods: There should be a television that is protected against barbarian schlockmeisters who produce tasteless and inferior works.
2. Etymology: from Yiddish or Jewish shlak, “a hit, a strike, a blow” + German -meister, "a person in charge of a specified thing."

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2. Etymology: from Yiddish or Jewish shlak, “a hit, a strike, a blow” + German -meister, "a person in charge of a specified thing."

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