plural schmucks
slang
: a stupid, foolish, or unlikeable person : jerk sense 1b
Do not be the poor schmuck who runs out of gas and is stranded when a natural disaster is about to hit.—
Ryan Carlyle
Ryan Carlyle… his realization that he's … like the rest of us, just an average schmuck who makes mistakes and tries to fix them.—Maureen Ryan
Maureen Ryan… cursing under your breath as some other schmuck wins all the Bingo prizes …—PortlandMercury.com
PortlandMercury.com… the phenomenon known as road rage, in which aggressive schmucks attack other people who get in the way of their four-by-fours.—Stanley Bing
Stanley BingIn the very early days, we used to do all sorts of stuff that no one would have suspected of us, so that when we did get to the level of "The Ed Sullivan Show," we were real and not just some little schmucks from out of town.—Paul McCartney
Paul McCartneyExamples of schmuck in a Sentence
I can't believe what a schmuck that guy is.
don't be a schmuck and create an embarrassing scene in public
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The finish line was far better entrenched for schmucks without credentials than the start, which meant that after Gunna crossed the finish line around 25:30, there wasn’t much to see or do.
—Abe Beame, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
But some schmuck producer somewhere out there in Hollywood doesn't agree, and hopefully some internet sleuths will figure out who the person is and shame them.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Call him a lush, a louse, a putz, a schmuck, a sad-sack, and a dumb-SOB and all would apply.
—Ben Croll, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
Further down on Cloudy’s timeline is one of those explainer videos where some schmuck speaks with authority into their phone’s front-facing camera.
—Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2025
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Abe Beame, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
But some schmuck producer somewhere out there in Hollywood doesn't agree, and hopefully some internet sleuths will figure out who the person is and shame them.
—Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Call him a lush, a louse, a putz, a schmuck, a sad-sack, and a dumb-SOB and all would apply.
—Ben Croll, IndieWire, 19 May 2025
Further down on Cloudy’s timeline is one of those explainer videos where some schmuck speaks with authority into their phone’s front-facing camera.
—Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Schmuck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schmuck. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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schmuck
noun
slang
: a stupid or foolish person
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