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as in hulk
a big clumsy often slow-witted person
although he's something of a lubber, everyone agrees that he has a kind heart
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Recent Examples of lubber
One of the synthetic pyrethroids could also help control the young lubber grasshoppers.
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Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2025
Land lubbers hike: Lace up those shoes for a 9 to 11 a.m. excursion on Sunday, Oct. 20, to Ansel’s Cave in The West Woods in Russell Township.
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Joan Rusek,
cleveland,
30 Sep. 2019
Many young lubbers are eaten by spiders, birds and other insects.
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Adriana Brasileiro,
orlandosentinel.com,
19 July 2019
Water-lubbers can easily access freshwater lakes, rural flatland and woodland forests.
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Amy Aumick,
OrlandoSentinel.com,
15 May 2018
China does not have the sealift, airlift, or sustainment capability to project force to Taiwan - and that's before the US Navy gets involved as lubber points out below.
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Isaac Stone Fish,
Slate Magazine,
4 Oct. 2017
Lubbers expects that Cuban Travel Network will start offering small group tours built around live events to attract American travelers looking for a Cuban music experience but unable to go on their own.
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Judy Cantor-Navas,
Billboard,
22 June 2017
Like you and I, Pi me bucko, those three lubbers there all have a cabin here in the Barkadeer.
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Vincent Janoski,
WIRED,
19 Sep. 2008
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2025
Land lubbers hike: Lace up those shoes for a 9 to 11 a.m. excursion on Sunday, Oct. 20, to Ansel’s Cave in The West Woods in Russell Township.
—
Joan Rusek,
cleveland,
30 Sep. 2019
Many young lubbers are eaten by spiders, birds and other insects.
—
Adriana Brasileiro,
orlandosentinel.com,
19 July 2019
Water-lubbers can easily access freshwater lakes, rural flatland and woodland forests.
—
Amy Aumick,
OrlandoSentinel.com,
15 May 2018
China does not have the sealift, airlift, or sustainment capability to project force to Taiwan - and that's before the US Navy gets involved as lubber points out below.
—
Isaac Stone Fish,
Slate Magazine,
4 Oct. 2017
Lubbers expects that Cuban Travel Network will start offering small group tours built around live events to attract American travelers looking for a Cuban music experience but unable to go on their own.
—
Judy Cantor-Navas,
Billboard,
22 June 2017
Like you and I, Pi me bucko, those three lubbers there all have a cabin here in the Barkadeer.
—
Vincent Janoski,
WIRED,
19 Sep. 2008
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lubber
Noun
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The hulk has made it to the Seaport once — in September 2024 when it was towed to Pier 17 for a Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Week event.
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But Lobo isn't some mindless arrogant hulk out to impose his indomitable will.
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There’s married mom of six Angela (Alexandra Melrose), who needs a break from the double-wide trailer and her lummox spouse.
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Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
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There, by definition, each match has to have a winner and a loser, so any match that ends in a draw proceeds to two 15-minute periods of overtime, and, if that fails to untie the score, a penalty kick shootout.
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The loser of Saturday’s match in Kansas City will finish third in this group.
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The four producers on the project were responsible for producing the full project — including the audio dubs across languages, the music and the score – over six weeks.
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Daveigh launched her career with several starring roles in films like the American dub of Spirited Away, Lilo & Stitch, Donnie Darko and The Ring — the last of which earned her an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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Rather than receiving a lump-sum loan upfront, borrowers can access a credit line as needed during the draw period (up to the credit limit).
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Like Lerner’s previous protagonists, the narrator is something of an intellectual klutz, at once Chekhov and Chaplin.
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Leslie played along, pretending to be a klutz who liked being harshed by a pre-school kid.
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Mantzoukas was willing to look like a maniac and a moron in equal measure.
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Lluís then calls Puig Antich a moron.
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Carrie raves to Seema about her creative connection with Duncan, and during another writing session, Duncan helps Carrie with her faulty printer and gawks at her closet full of designer dresses and shoes.
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Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
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“Lubber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lubber. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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