schlockn.adj.

1906 Men's Wear (N.Y.) 20 June 32/2 Baxter street, the puller-in, the clothing store fire, the fire sale, the misfit parlor, the schlag store, all will have passed away.

a1934 N. Kimball Nell Kimball: Life as Amer. Madam (1970) xix. 184 It was a tough joint for sailors, shady peddlers of slock, dock wallopers.

1954 S. J. Perelman Let. 11 Jan. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 156 The tourist schlock is typical Far Eastern—filigree silver as on Eighth Street, mass production negro sculpture,—unending Indian stores.

1963 T. Pynchon V. iv. 110 She loves my rhinoplasty But the others are schlock.

1970 Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 30/1 The most successful..have substituted sociological satire for sentimental schlock.

1976 New Musical Express 31 July 37/1 Presley was already showing..an inclination to go in for schlock rather than rock.

1981 Listener 26 Feb. 294/1 Atkinson is more fun away from showbiz schlock.

2004 Time Out 31 Mar. 147/2 (advt.) Kureishi's play is schlock that takes itself seriously.

1916 N.Y. Tribune 10 Jan. 14/1 There is nothing ‘schlock’ about the Goodell method.

1972 Publishers Weekly 21 Aug. 71/3 Shlock fiction with all the necessary ingredients, the result is mindlessly entertaining, if rather tasteless.

1991 Vox July 102/4 But rarely can so much quality have been sacrificed in the final 60 seconds. I won't spoil it for you, but this is not a shock ending—it's a schlock ending.

1906 Men's Wear (N.Y.) 20 June 32/2 Baxter street, the puller-in, the clothing store fire, the fire sale, the misfit parlor, the schlag store, all will have passed away.

1915 N.Y. Tribune 25 July 12/1 Damaged articles..are sold..to the..‘schlock’ store proprietors.

1966 L. Deighton Billion-dollar Brain xv. 142 The schlock-shops were afire with sale signs and smiling suckers.

2005 N.Y. Mag. 14 Feb. 152/1 And the neighborhood's schlock shops sold ‘loops’: silent black-and-white eight-millimeter films that provided ten minutes' worth of straight-up fornication.

1971 Esquire Oct. 48/2 Some very interesting technicians wander onto the sets of the cheapest schlock horror flicks from time to time and do their respective things.

1976 Daily Texan (Univ. Texas, Austin) 2 Feb. 16/4 They finally decide on a schlock horror movie for which the film is titled.

1977 Cinefantastique Winter 26/1 Writer-director David Cronenberg is to Canada what Roger Corman had been..to the United States: the reigning king of schlock horror.

1989 T. C. Boyle If River was Whiskey 113 A parade of images from all the schlock horror films he'd ever seen..marched..through his head.

1997 TV Quick 7 June (Granada Region ed.) 44/2 Schlock horror from the Master, with Richard Thomas, John Ritter and Annette O'Toole.

2015 MailOnline (Nexis) 13 Oct. A young couple are terrorized, and ultimately chopped to bits, by a crazed killer in a haunted house in the schlock horror movie.

1968 N.Y. Times Mag. 25 Aug. 39/2 Where, oh where, in schlock rock like Tommy James and the Shondells, is there even so much as a memory of the authentic gritty joyousness of Otis Redding.

2015 N. Soulsby I found my Friends i. 4 Our radio station locally had a bad reputation because they just played schlock rock.

1960 Pasadena (Calif.) Independent 7 Apr. 6/5 What must people think who enter Pasadena for the first time? Do they think it is an attractive cultural community? Or another junky, schlocky hick town.

1975 Publishers Weekly 1 Dec. 67/2 Just what the marketplace doesn't need, one more schlocky Gothic series.

1981 Spectator 24 Jan. 7/2 The concentration on Sinatra arises out of the suspicion that the Reagan entourage of friends and hangers-on is loaded with shabby, shady, schlocky, smarmy, shyster millionaires.

1990 Baltimore July 39/2 The prices might be a dollar or two higher than at schlockier places.

2013 Radio Times 9 Nov. (South/West ed.) 91/3 If, like me, you're a devotee of schlocky, adoring historical bio-dramas, then you'll love this.