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schlemazel 

A perpetually unlucky person. A person who's often a victim of something bad. From Yiddish.
A "schlemiel" is the guy most likely to spill the wine at dinner.
A "schlemazel" is the guy most likely to have the wine spilled on him.
And the "nudnick" is the guy most likely to ask (in a nasal voice), "Gee, what kind of wine was that anyhow?"
schlemazel by Osama_Bin Login January 12, 2014
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shlemazel 

A person who suffers the screw-ups of a shlemiel.
A shlemiel is the guy who buys a coke at the ball game and spills it on the guy in front of him, who is a shlemazel.
shlemazel by Bruce February 4, 2004

schlamazel

One who is always getting the soup spilled on him by the schlemiel.
Sometimes Bob can also be a schlemiel, when he's not being a schlamazel.
schlamazel by Athene Airheart March 17, 2004

schlimazel

Someone prone to having extremely bad luck, a born loser

Sometimes misspelled schlemazel
A schlemiel is one who always spills his soup; schlimazel is the one on
whom it always lands.
schlimazel by mandingoe September 24, 2004

schlimazel

Someone who doesn’t have good luck, but causes everyone around him to have bad luck.

That person who never does anything cool, and doesn’t even seem particularly good at anything, but is popular and has all the luck.

If you tried to describe them to people they are usually overly confident and a little annoying. Maybe has a nice hair cut or is considered classically handsome, but not truly beautiful or very handsome .

You feel cheated out if a promotion by a loser? You’ve met a schlimzal.
“What a schlimazel! He would have never gotten that promotion if everyone else hadn’t been fired!”
schlimazel by RavingRavin March 23, 2023
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