(colloquial, chiefly, US) 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.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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