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schmuck (s) (noun), schmucks (pl)
1. A foolish or contemptible person: People really are schmucks to fall for what that politician is saying.
2. A pejorative term meaning that someone is a stupid, an idiotic, or a detestable person: During the soccer game, James felt like a schmuck when he kicked the ball into the wrong goal!
3.Etymology: from Yiddish, Jewish, Hebrew shmok, "fool."
An idiotic person.
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