Synonyms
- airhead
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- bubblehead
- chowderhead
- chucklehead
- clodpoll
- clodpole
- clot [British]
- cluck
- clunk
- cretin
- cuddy [British dialect]
- cuddie
- deadhead
- dim bulb [slang]
- dimwit
- dip
- dodo
- dolt
- donkey
- doofus [slang]
- dope
- dork [slang]
- dullard
- dum-dum
- dumbbell
- dumbhead
- dummkopf
- dummy
- dunce
- dunderhead
- fathead
- gander
- golem
- goof
- goon
- half-wit
- hammerhead
- hardhead
- idiot
- ignoramus
- imbecile
- jackass
- know-nothing
- knucklehead
- lamebrain
- loggerhead [chiefly dialect]
- loon
- lump
- lunkhead
- meathead
- mome [archaic]
- moron
- mug [chiefly British]
- mutt
- natural
- nimrod [slang]
- nincompoop
- ninny
- ninnyhammer
- nit [chiefly British]
- nitwit
- noddy
- noodle
- numskull
- numbskull
- oaf
- pinhead
- prat [British]
- ratbag [chiefly Australian]
- saphead
- schnook [slang]
- simpleton
- stock
- stupe
- stupid
- thickhead
- turkey
- woodenhead
- yahoo
- yo-yo
Examples of schlub in a Sentence
you're a complete schlub—you should do great around here
Recent Examples on the Web
Samet, cynically defending his right to be an isolationist schlub, dismisses justice and community as naïve ideals.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
And carrying his inevitable thirtysomething disillusionment in a little schlub around the midriff, for sure.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
The middle-aged schlubs with Titleist dad hats and 24-ounce Coors cans, subtly revealing their tribal affiliation via the dancing bear on their striped polos.
—Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
This film plays more like a working-class fable, the kind where a likable schlub achieves success through grit and determination.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
But Donal Logue is hardly a schlub.
—Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
Here's a few things to know about Miami: These Hurricanes are no schlubs.
—Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2023
Johnson loves to play the schlub, despite his muscly stature and big personality, but this disaster drama marked the best of that character type, hear as a rescue helicopter pilot searching for his daughter in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California.
—Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 2 May 2022
But Douglas was middle-aged, graying, odd-looking, even a little jowly — by industry standards, practically a schlub.
—Vulture, 5 Apr. 2022
Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
And carrying his inevitable thirtysomething disillusionment in a little schlub around the midriff, for sure.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
The middle-aged schlubs with Titleist dad hats and 24-ounce Coors cans, subtly revealing their tribal affiliation via the dancing bear on their striped polos.
—Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
This film plays more like a working-class fable, the kind where a likable schlub achieves success through grit and determination.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
But Donal Logue is hardly a schlub.
—Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
Here's a few things to know about Miami: These Hurricanes are no schlubs.
—Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2023
Johnson loves to play the schlub, despite his muscly stature and big personality, but this disaster drama marked the best of that character type, hear as a rescue helicopter pilot searching for his daughter in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California.
—Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 2 May 2022
But Douglas was middle-aged, graying, odd-looking, even a little jowly — by industry standards, practically a schlub.
—Vulture, 5 Apr. 2022
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“Schlub.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schlub. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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