Usually means: Cheaply made, showy, and useless.
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  1. gimcrack: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gimcrack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gimcrack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gimcrack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gimcrack: Vocabulary.com
  6. gimcrack: Wordnik
  7. gimcrack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gimcrack: Wiktionary
  9. gimcrack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gimcrack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gimcrack: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gimcrack, gimcrack: Dictionary.com
  13. gimcrack: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gimcrack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gimcrack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gimcrack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gimcrack: Rhymezone
  18. Gimcrack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gimcrack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. gimcrack: Free Dictionary
  21. gimcrack: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. gimcrack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gimcrack: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. gimcrack: Legal dictionary

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  1. gimcrack: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gimcrack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gimcrack: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gimcrackery as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
noun:  Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick.
verb:  (transitive) To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge.
verb:  (transitive) To embellish with gimcracks.

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