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schlimazels

schlimazels is the plural of schlimazel.

Meaning of schlimazel

Noun

schlimazel (plural schlimazels)

  1. (US, colloquial) A chronically unlucky person.
    • I must have pressed two buttons at once, he decided; jammed the works and got this schlimazl’s eye view of reality.1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 46

Questions about schlimazels

What is schlimazels the plural of?
Schlimazels is the plural of schlimazel.

Words near schlimazels in the dictionary

  1. schlieren
  2. schlieren photography
  3. schlierens
  4. schlieric
  5. schlimazel
  6. schlimazels
  7. schlimazl
  8. schlimazls
  9. Schlink
  10. Schlinks
  11. Schlippe's salt

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