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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
Sam apologized awkwardly, trying covertly to swipe beneath her chin, checking for drool and feeling like the world’s schlubiest schlub for struggling to tear her eyes from this stranger when the love of her life had dumped her an hour earlier.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Redfield’s Peter is a blue-collar schlub fighting suicidal despair.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
Lauren Goode: Basically no one looked like a bigger schlub.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
Why cast a hearing actor with tremendous charisma next to a deaf actor who is made out (in costuming, grooming and general deportment) to be a schlub?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Redfield’s Peter is a blue-collar schlub fighting suicidal despair.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
Lauren Goode: Basically no one looked like a bigger schlub.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
Why cast a hearing actor with tremendous charisma next to a deaf actor who is made out (in costuming, grooming and general deportment) to be a schlub?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schlub
Noun
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The toilet does the heavy work automatically with an electromechanical system, so all the owner of said waste has to do is grab the sealed, odorless bag and drop it in the garbage, much like a mutt mitt.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 May 2025
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Remember when this series started, the Nuggets were heavy underdogs, viewed as mutts.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
11 May 2025
Noun
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So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.—
Drew Broussard
May 22,
Literary Hub,
22 May 2025
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Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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All matches were best-of-two, and each player started with five minutes on the clock in the winners’ bracket, three minutes in the losers’ bracket, and both had one-second increments with each move (considered time to move the piece).—
Eduardo Tansley,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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While a loss won't eliminate either team, the winner will advance directly to the semifinals, while the loser will have to play an elimination game against the winner of Murray State vs. Arkansas.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
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“Schlub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schlub. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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