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looby

noun

ˈlü-bē

Definition of looby

as in lubber

a clumsy, awkward person although he was a looby physically, he was a towering figure in mathematics

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Noun

One of the synthetic pyrethroids could also help control the young lubber grasshoppers.

— Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2025
Unlike other grasshopper species which are winged and agile, the lubber can't fly.

— Adriana Brasileiro, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019

Definition of lubber

Noun

There’s married mom of six Angela (Alexandra Melrose), who needs a break from the double-wide trailer and her lummox spouse.

— Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
Max is still living happily in New York City with his owner, Katie (Ellie Kemper), and his lummox of a best friend Duke (Eric Stonestreet).

— The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019

Definition of lummox

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Carrie raves to Seema about her creative connection with Duncan, and during another writing session, Duncan helps Carrie with her faulty printer and gawks at her closet full of designer dresses and shoes.

— Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 31 July 2025
The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response.

— Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022

Definition of gawk

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His early-season performances helped secure some dubs for those managers who saw the available opportunity in Tampa and who know that Ohio State mints exceptional wide receivers as Mercedes churns out exceptional automobiles.

— Sports Betting, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
In the first two installments, Panettiere voiced the kind island kid turned princess Kairi for the games’ English dub.

— Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of dub

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Like a klutz on an obstacle course, a Tesla Robotaxi with no safety driver seemingly panicked after taking a wrong turn and plowed through a row of bollards, those springy traffic barriers that you are not supposed to run down.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026
Like Lerner’s previous protagonists, the narrator is something of an intellectual klutz, at once Chekhov and Chaplin.

— Giles Harvey, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of klutz

Noun

Then there’s the fact that many potential investors aren’t quite sure what to make of a company from a mostly empty lump of volcanic rock in the middle of the North Atlantic.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Aug. 2026
The process produces pebble-sized lumps called clinker, which are then ground into cement powder.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026

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