schlump

Example Sentences

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Now, he is free to go Full Schlump, in worn jeans and newish Nikes, and play his beloved Grateful Dead to welcome audiences.

From Seattle Times

Best known from his many film, television and voice-over performances as a twinkling human Yoda, he writes himself into his plays as a schlump concealing a shiv.

From New York Times

You wouldn’t be wrong to order every mezze on the menu, but if you don’t, be sure at least to score the eggplant à la Yafa, which is fried into collapsing caramelized rings that schlump onto your plate.

From New York Times

It did, and when the Nazis came to power, “Schlump” was burned and banned.

From Washington Post

Mr. Jacobs’s dramatic physical transformation from “a withdrawn schlump in eyeglasses,” as a 2008 New Yorker profile of him said, into someone “muscular, bronzed, shining with diamonds,” seemed to presage a new era, one that not all fans embraced.

From New York Times