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- noun Plural form of
lummox .
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Examples
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Aside from its tastelessness and dawdling pace, the movie’s chief problem is the lackluster chemistry between leading lummoxes Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
Ten Great Movies That Got Terrible Reviews | Best Week Ever 2008
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I only say he's a lummox because he looks just like the lummoxes on Ren and Stimpy.
wilberteets Diary Entry wilberteets 2007
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Seriously, let the MMA lummoxes think what they want.
The Kerambits Steve Perry 2006
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The Mets need a center fielder who can play well in the field between the likes of lummoxes Butch Huskey and Gilkey.
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Cows-big lummoxes splotched black and white, harnessed now for the plowing because German horses in the Zone are all but extinct-will drudge with straight faces right on into minefields, sown back in the winter.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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"If you two big lummoxes had dropped in on those crazy goofs instead of me, they'd've thought you were elephants and set you to work hauling logs!"
Space Tug Murray Leinster 1935
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There was a time when Allardyce would send his great lummoxes out on the pitch and the Gunners would curl up and frizzle away like wood-shavings on the fire.
BBC Blog Network 2010
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These descriptions can also be rather cruel, as when he writes about the Reuschel brothers, Paul and Rick as "two stunned, doughy, beady-eyed lummoxes glowering apprehensively back at us."
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I have had some downright retarded witnesses in my day, and even the oafish of lummoxes are smart enough to retreat to the dark recesses of failed human memory.
TPMMuckraker 2009
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I have had some downright retarded witnesses in my day, and even the oafish of lummoxes are smart enough to retreat to the dark recesses of failed human memory.
TPMMuckraker 2009
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