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stumblebum

[stuhm-buhl-buhm] / ˈstʌm bəlˌbʌm /


NOUN
palooka
Synonyms


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Then the game started—and the team that looked like lowly stumblebums was the one wearing black and gold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

All they had to do on Sunday was overcome the Cleveland Browns, the lowly stumblebums who had won a grand total of three games all season.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

An assortment of fluffy stumblebums tussle over squeaky objects until they drag whatever they put in their mouth into an end zone.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2023

And he has mostly avoided the rambling, winsome stories and foxy stumblebums who made readers fall in love with his books in the first place.

From New York Times • May 4, 2016

Before the game with the Moscow Dynamos was half over, the most disciplined Soviet sports fan was beginning to doubt the party line; "Britain's best" were playing like footsore stumblebums.

From Time Magazine Archive




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