[ ʃlɒk ]
■ noun informal, chiefly N. Amer. cheap or inferior goods; trash.
Derivatives
~y adjective
Origin
early 20th cent.: appar. from Yiddish shlak 'an apoplectic stroke', shlog 'wretch, untidy person'.
[ ʃlɒk ]
■ noun informal, chiefly N. Amer. cheap or inferior goods; trash.
Derivatives
~y adjective
Origin
early 20th cent.: appar. from Yiddish shlak 'an apoplectic stroke', shlog 'wretch, untidy person'.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004