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Noun: shlimazel
Usage: US, informal
  1. (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything
    "No matter what he tried, Bob seemed to be a perpetual shlimazel";
    - schlimazel [US, informal]

Derived forms: shlimazels

Type of: unfortunate, unfortunate person