Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who is neither neat nor stylish; a rumpled or dowdy person.
- noun A person who is somewhat fat and unfit.
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- noun slang Someone who is
lazy ,slovenly , ordull -looking.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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—Mets vice-president of media relations Jay Horwitz is, self admittedly, "a little bit of a schlump."
Three Mets Decades, Only Two Days Off Jeff Pearlman 2011
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Just a few stalks will have a round-shouldered, introverted schlump like me oozing androsterone out of every pore!
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Mr. Lane, who started out in journalism helping compile Forbes magazine's billionaire scorecards, is an ingenuous narrator who likes to remind the reader that he was essentially a schlump living in a fourth-floor walkup while his glossies burnished the egos and tweaked the appetites of Wall Street's new wildcatters.
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And for all the attention and hype and fans who wear "Team Aniston" T-shirts, I bet she misses those days when she could just sit in the dark and be a schlump.
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Yes, Stump was almost eclipsed by the competition, by the other dogs competing in Best in Show, a standard poodle, a Scottish terrier, a puli, a Brussels griffon and a Scottish deerhound, but Stump proved to be no schlump.
Erica Heller: The Year of the Geezer: The Triumph of Stump, the Sussex Spaniel 2009
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Mr. Rogen, who's often cast as a likable schlump, gives an edgy, brave performance, making not even the faintest plea for audience understanding or sympathy.
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True, he usually plays more of a Type-B schlump than a Type-A captain, but he's cast as the Green Hornet to be directed by Michel Gondry, the antithesis of J. J. Abrams, so we'll see how he pulls off superherodom.
Archive 2009-04-01 Fresca 2009
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Mr. Rogen, who's often cast as a likable schlump, gives an edgy, brave performance, making not even the faintest plea for audience understanding or sympathy.
Bad Mall-Cop, Good Mall-Girl lm JOANNE KAUFMAN 2009
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Forgive me if the comics are unfunny or boring or whatever, Im in a schlump right now.
dailycomic Diary Entry dailycomic 2008
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The answer is probably the poor schlump taxpayers in Michigan and Florida, who already have financed two primaries that don't count.
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