schlump

Example Sentences

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This is not some schlump out of the qualifying tournament, or some second cousin of a tournament official who got in with a wild card.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2015

“The legend of Roger Ailes has it that he almost single-handedly transformed Nixon from a schlump to a president with his talk-show alchemy. But the truth was more complicated.”

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2014

Enigmatic, thoughtful, self-effacing but not self-annihilating, Carraway is definitely not a schlump.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2012

The consensus was that to be sleazy one must seem potentially threatening, and I am too much of a clueless old schlump for that.

From Washington Post

German schlump; Danish and Swedish slump, a hap or chance, an accident; that is, a fall.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer