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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.
by Bruce February 4, 2004
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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?"
by Osama_Bin Login January 12, 2014
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Sleazelexia

When reading a line of text, your brain switches out a word or words, making an innocent sentence dirty.
When reading Harry Potter, my sleazelexia kept changing the word "wand" to "wang".

He wrote he wanted me to get him a pumpkin but I read it as blumpkin.
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Shlemiel

From Yiddish origin. A clumsy, inept, or foolish person.
As quoted from the film Independence Day:

"If I knew I was going to meet the President I would have wore a tie. I mean look at me, I look like a shlemiel."
by Mata99 May 30, 2009
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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.
by Athene Airheart March 17, 2004
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shlimazl

She is shlimazl.
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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.
by mandingoe September 24, 2004
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