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also shlub
as in idiot
a stupid person
you're a complete schlub—you should do great around here
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Recent Examples of schlub
Cal Hampton is a floral-shirt-wearing schlub who’s a close friend of Jason’s.
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2025
Some poor schlub in the Disney marketing team had to figure out a way to integrate the new live-action Snow White movie into the Women Tell All.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2025
But even the bling signals schlub — the timepiece’s hands stay frozen throughout our conversation.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 Feb. 2025
The high point of Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho’s bitterly funny follow-up to his Oscar-winning Parasite, is a prolonged sequence in which the title character, a hapless schlub played by Robert Pattinson, explains how his life became a hellscape of technologically enabled immortality.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2025
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2025
Some poor schlub in the Disney marketing team had to figure out a way to integrate the new live-action Snow White movie into the Women Tell All.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2025
But even the bling signals schlub — the timepiece’s hands stay frozen throughout our conversation.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 Feb. 2025
The high point of Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho’s bitterly funny follow-up to his Oscar-winning Parasite, is a prolonged sequence in which the title character, a hapless schlub played by Robert Pattinson, explains how his life became a hellscape of technologically enabled immortality.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schlub
Noun
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Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.—
Colm Tóibín,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2026
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This drunk moron — quite different from his character in the novel — bears a ton of blame.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The scale of the headloss was best summed up by Luis Suarez attempting to reason with Messi, before the Argentine did anything on the Suarez scale of stupid.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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But the new parking fees at Balboa Park are a whole new level of stupid.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The radio listener is the big loser here.—
Mac Engel
April 2,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Apr. 2026
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People who need services are the biggest losers.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Schlub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schlub. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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