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also shlub
as in idiot
a stupid person
you're a complete schlub—you should do great around here
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Recent Examples of schlub
But even the bling signals schlub — the timepiece’s hands stay frozen throughout our conversation.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for schlub
Noun
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The Dilbert principle — traced back to a quote in a 1995 strip — posited that managers and higher-ups are actually successful morons whose stubbornness is confused for real leadership qualities.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2026
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Overwhelmingly, though, the most common response was to seek confirmation of their suspicions that Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were morons.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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There is nothing in the past year that suggests that the portion of this global event that will take place in the U.S. will proceed with anything less than exhausting chaos, a spoonful of stupid, and a dash of tragedy.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Jan. 2026
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And then, the rest of her life, filled with big stupids and everything else, will begin.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The public and private markets have decided that infrastructure companies and the top model developers are the AI winners, while software companies are the likely losers, regardless of how strong their businesses may look today.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
5 Feb. 2026
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Investors are starting to pick AI winners and losers.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Schlub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schlub. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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