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stumblebum

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stum·ble·bum  (stmbl-bm)
n. Slang
1. A person regarded as blundering or inept.
2. A punch-drunk or second-rate prizefighter.
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Noun1.stumblebum - a second-rate prize fighter
boxer, pugilist - someone who fights with his fists for sport
2.stumblebum - an awkward stupid personstumblebum - an awkward stupid person            
clumsy person - a person with poor motor coordination


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Caius set the pace with an articulate tenor and whirlwind entrance to berate Falstaff's servants, Bardolph (tenor Martin Sadd) and Pistol (baritone Neil Craighead), a Mutt-and-Jeff team of stumblebums whose voices blended well.
I also heard repeatedly that regulators, those poor stumblebums, were ten years behind investment bankers in their thinking.
So as I ambled from Tottenham Court Road to Oxford Circus and down Regent Street, I was faintly astonished, given that the financial blight formerly known as The Crunch is now officially The Recession, to find that instead of tumbleweed and stumblebums the Street was heaving with shoppers laden with bags, wearing the glazed expressions of hardened consumers in search of their fix.
 
 
 
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