A cheapknock-off of a name brand item, usually an item of poor quality. Though Wal-Mart is usually the origin of said item, a Wal-Mart special can come from any store.
1.) Jimmy wanted an iPod for Christmas, but his mom got him the Wal-Mart Special and it's already broke!
2.) Patrick: "Hey guys, check out the new rims on my car!"
Michael: "Wow, are those made of plastic? You must have cheaped out and got the Wal-Mart Special!"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)