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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stumblebum

"alcoholic derelict," 1932, from stumble (v.) + bum (n.2).

Wiktionary
stumblebum

n. 1 A blundering or awkward person 2 An inept prizefighter 3 A bum (homeless person)

WordNet
stumblebum
  1. n. a second-rate prize fighter [syn: palooka]

  2. an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk]

Usage examples of "stumblebum".

Derry a stumblebum again, mugging lushes in the Village for doughnut dough?

I was scared and intrigued at the same time, but as I was leaving, a stumblebum on the sidewalk ahead of me went into a seizure.

On one hand, the captain was making perfect sense: Malachi was the only connection, and it would be stupid to keep that connection alive, only to have some NIS stumblebum trip over it by accident.

Now he set forth to reach the road, scuffling the sand like a stumblebum, resting many times on the way, sweating profusely.

Going on what these two local stumblebums swore had happened and judging from the contents of the plastic bags, however, Drew was beginning to have some inkling.

I felt we, the human race, stumblebums of the known universe, had killed it.

I took this job the Dell was just a bunch of stumblebums squatting in the old mining shacks.

Going on what these two local stumblebums swore had happened and judging from the contents of the plastic bags, however, Drew was beginning to have some inkling.

As it is, she must scrape by earning maybe a tenth of what the male instructor pulls down, giving lessons to a small number of addled or henpecked stumblebums like Randy Waterhouse.