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A knockoff is a cheap copy of something expensive — a bag, a watch, a pair of shoes, a design. It looks like the famous thing, but it is not made by that company, and the quality is usually lower. The word is informal. use it; when people mean it is against the law, they may say fake or counterfeit instead. Though actually, not every knockoff is a secret crime: some are openly sold as cheap of a style. People also use it like an adjective: knockoff sunglasses. The picture is something knocked off quickly, not made with care.
山寨貨、仿冒品。台灣日常常說「山寨」；若是違法冒用品牌，較正式的說法是仿冒品。
組成Deverbal from knock off, in the sense of copying or producing something quickly and cheaply.
同家族的字
- knock offthe verb this noun comes from; to knock off a design is to copy it fast
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
knockoffnoun
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An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually of lower quality and price than the original.
- It's not a name-brand bag; it's just a cheap knockoff.
- He tried to sell us some knockoff watches.
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businessknittingmanufacturingA device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。