schlump
Example Sentences
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You wouldn’t be wrong to order every mezze on the menu, but if you don’t, be sure at least to score the eggplant à la Yafa, which is fried into collapsing caramelized rings that schlump onto your plate.
From New York Times
It did, and when the Nazis came to power, “Schlump” was burned and banned.
From Washington Post
In this black comedy, 17-year-old Schlump goes off to war in hopes of “meeting girls.”
From Washington Post
Mr. Jacobs’s dramatic physical transformation from “a withdrawn schlump in eyeglasses,” as a 2008 New Yorker profile of him said, into someone “muscular, bronzed, shining with diamonds,” seemed to presage a new era, one that not all fans embraced.
From New York Times
To be fair to Casey Affleck, he is not the biggest schlump in show business.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
