schlub

noun

ˈshləb How to pronounce schlub (audio)
variants or less commonly shlub
Synonyms of schlubnext
slang
: a stupid, worthless, or unattractive person

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Examples of schlub in a Sentence

you're a complete schlub—you should do great around here
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Some poor schlub in the Disney marketing team had to figure out a way to integrate the new live-action Snow White movie into the Women Tell All. — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2025 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 Sam apologized awkwardly, trying covertly to swipe beneath her chin, checking for drool and feeling like the world’s schlubiest schlub for struggling to tear her eyes from this stranger when the love of her life had dumped her an hour earlier. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for schlub

Word History

Etymology

Yiddish zhlob, zhlub yokel, boor

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of schlub was in 1950

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“Schlub.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schlub. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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