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Definitions for: Gimcrack [adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
Webster (1913) Definition: Gim"crack`, n. [OE., a spruce and pert pretender,
also, a spruce girl, prob. fr. gim + crack lad, boaster.]
A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
--Arbuthnot.
Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, in poor taste(p), loud, meretricious, tacky, tasteless, tatty, tawdry, trashy
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