shlub

That photo looks like some shlub is posing next to a cardboard cutout of a real dancer.

The takeover reaches a new level 2009

I am willing to wager an impossible to prove proposition: that this no-name shlub from South Carolina would never have interrupted a white politician.

Beau Friedlander: Expulsion? Joe Wilson Stole the Air Waves and Disgraced the Nation 2009

Homeless is no longer the poor "shlub" who no one knows.

Brother Can You Spare a Dime? 2009

To take your toughly (?) worded second point ('get over it, shlubs' †I'm in the UK and unsure what a 'shlub' is, but it certainly sounds uncompromising): I wouldn't link to a post of mine unless I felt I had something to say!

The Social Impacts of Software Choices - Anil Dash 2005

Superstar or shlub, home or visiting team; it doesn't matter: your job is to make the proper call as you see it.

Billy Altman: Remembering Bill Shannon, baseball's scorer for all seasons Billy Altman 2010

Superstar or shlub, home or visiting team; it doesn't matter: your job is to make the proper call as you see it.

Billy Altman: Remembering Bill Shannon, baseball's scorer for all seasons Billy Altman 2010

Superstar or shlub, home or visiting team; it doesn't matter: your job is to make the proper call as you see it.

Billy Altman: Remembering Bill Shannon, Baseball's Scorer for All Seasons Billy Altman 2010

Could God be some shlub who's so enraged at the likes of Proenza Schuler and Louis Vuitton that he created this explicit choice between the tenets of faith and the tents of fabulous spring collections?

Lily Blau: Fashion and Faith: God, Gucci, and What Happened Along the Way Lily Blau 2010

In the passage below, Volodya is the shlub of a narrator's rival, and Goetske is the flamboyant star of the opposing team.

A Different Stripe 2010

In the passage below, Volodya is the shlub of a narrator's rival, and Goetske is the flamboyant star of the opposing team.

A Different Stripe: 2010