Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stupid or obnoxious person.
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- noun A
stupid orobnoxious person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) a jerk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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People DO get together and plan grand strategies, figuring out ways to get advantages over the everyday schmo.
Did you know that Jews control the Washington Post? [Bumped.] - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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I was just some schmo in my basement with a gigantic collection of tiny housing books, building cabins in the woods as an adult.
Kirsten Dirksen: WATCH: A Man With 5 Tiny Homes in His Backyard: Micro-Architecture as Punk Rock Kirsten Dirksen 2011
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It can feel pretty diminishing when an established figure in literature, or even some schmo on the sidewalk, snubs horror as a lesser art.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Akerman, meanwhile, is very funny as the loser-at-love woman who would rather be with a great-looking guy who ignores her than an average schmo who actually cares what she thinks.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: HappyThankYouMorePlease Marshall Fine 2011
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And that cost has gone up in the past 4 years in CO, plus the Habitat Stamp program here is comepletly unfair in regards to forcing hunter/fishers to pay and letting every other joe schmo walk their dog near me for free.
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It can feel pretty diminishing when an established figure in literature, or even some schmo on the sidewalk, snubs horror as a lesser art.
Why Write Horror? 2009
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Especially Hasbro toys, which are mass produced in obscene numbers. clueless schmo
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And that cost has gone up in the past 4 years in CO, plus the Habitat Stamp program here is comepletly unfair in regards to forcing hunter/fishers to pay and letting every other joe schmo walk their dog near me for free.
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Steve Carell plays Barry, a schmo (yes, you need Joys of Yiddish to read this story) who makes dioramas featuring dead, but cute, mice.
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We see the poor schmo in a phone booth and that's it?
What happened to Chauncey and other 'Mad Men' questions that need answers 2010
pterodactyl commented on the word schmo
I remember hearing that this word is a minced oath version of schmuck. Can anyone confirm or disconfirm?
April 7, 2009