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		Definition of schlump in English: schlumpnounʃlʊmpʃlʊmp North American informal A slow, slovenly, or inept person.  when he wakes up, the poor schlump finds himself in a gleaming modern Shangri-La  Example sentencesExamples -  The cartoon shows some helicopters, tanks and paratroopers converging on a suburban house; a typical schlump who looks like the sort of New York exurbanite not quite witty or lustful enough to get into a Cheever tale stands in the door.
 -  Not long ago he was just another loveless schlump on Broadway earning bad reviews.
 -  No matter what you do you still look like a schlump.
 
  Synonyms layabout, good-for-nothing, sluggard, slug, laggard 
 Origin   1940s: apparently related to Yiddish shlumperdik 'dowdy' and German Schlumpe 'slattern'.    Definition of schlump in US English: schlump(also shlump) nounʃlʊmpSHlo͝omp North American informal A slow, slovenly, or inept person.  when he wakes up, the poor schlump finds himself in a gleaming modern Shangri-La  Example sentencesExamples -  Not long ago he was just another loveless schlump on Broadway earning bad reviews.
 -  No matter what you do you still look like a schlump.
 -  The cartoon shows some helicopters, tanks and paratroopers converging on a suburban house; a typical schlump who looks like the sort of New York exurbanite not quite witty or lustful enough to get into a Cheever tale stands in the door.
 
  Synonyms layabout, good-for-nothing, sluggard, slug, laggard 
 Origin   1940s: apparently related to Yiddish shlumperdik ‘dowdy’ and German Schlumpe ‘slattern’.     |