cheapjack

noun

1. A peddler, a travelling hawker.

   “"Why," rejoined Mrs Cadwallader, with a sharper note, "you don't mean to say that you would like him to turn public man in that way—making a sort of political Cheap Jack of himself?"”

   “On the day after the riot he came upon a score of people collected round a Cheap Jack in the market.”

   “My mother and father was standing against the railings by the market, looking over at the fire-swallower and the cheap-jack and the Salvation Army down below; and the German Band was playing round the corner of the Commercial Arcade.”

   “I was much too timid and didn't have the cheap-jack’s boasting patter.”

adj

1. shabby

   “It was a drab, cheapjack little area, unambiguously removed from the public, and yet I had come to love it in a way I never could the rest of the monstruous edifice.”