schlub

variants also shlub
slang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of schlub But even the bling signals schlub — the timepiece’s hands stay frozen throughout our conversation. Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 19 Feb. 2025 The high point of Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho’s bitterly funny follow-up to his Oscar-winning Parasite, is a prolonged sequence in which the title character, a hapless schlub played by Robert Pattinson, explains how his life became a hellscape of technologically enabled immortality. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Feb. 2025 Redfield’s Peter is a blue-collar schlub fighting suicidal despair. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025 Lauren Goode: Basically no one looked like a bigger schlub. Lauren Goode, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for schlub
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schlub
Noun
  • Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, teaching them to play about as well as a seven-year-old human.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The Soviet Sputnik 5 carried mutts Belka and Strelka, 40 mice and two rats.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • During the competition, the losers are executed and the lone survivor is declared the winner.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But one this unique and anticipated deserved its own breakdown of winners and losers.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Schlub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schlub. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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