What is "schmucks"

Usage examples of "schmucks".

What kind of base and brainless schmucks are these people to worship somebody who, number one, never existed, and number two, if he did, looking as he does in that picture, was without a doubt The Pansy of Palestine.

Only instead of going to the corner convenience store to buy another lottery ticket, these Joe Schmucks go back to the mines and gamble in unsafe pits and die young.

Evenings went to introspection: I screened films of my old fights, Stan `The Man' Klein, feather-fisted, cannon fodder for hungry schmucks looking to pad their records.

Twenty million of these doomed schmucks, crowded into slums overflowing an island smaller than my family’s west lawn on Old Earth, all of them fighting to breathe the only breathable air on a world where the standard is to inhale and die, crowding ever closer to the center of the sixty-mile radius of survivable atmosphere which the Atmospheric Generating Station had been able to provide before it began to malfunction.

Twenty thousand surveyed worlds fit for our kind when the Hegira began, and those schmucks came here.