schlub

noun

variants or less commonly shlub
slang
: a stupid, worthless, or unattractive person

Examples of schlub in a Sentence

you're a complete schlub—you should do great around here
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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 Before the internet came along to knock the shine off the deep state and reveal that the U.S. government in all its forms was made up of an assortment of schlubs, The X-Files flourished as a masterpiece of small-town paranoia and cosmic conspiracy. Alex Galbraith, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024 Quite the contrary: schlubs like us who are stuck in urban areas account for 80 percent of the population of the United States. Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 4 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for schlub 

Word History

Etymology

Yiddish zhlob, zhlub yokel, boor

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of schlub was in 1950

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Cite this Entry

“Schlub.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schlub. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.

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