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palooka
noun
a person who is mediocre at their craft US, 1925
Originally a boxing term.- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 269, 1967
- If you were some palooka sitting in the bleachers at a tournament, Cochran was the guy you would watch. — Robert Byrne, McGoorty, p. 169, 1972
- [L]ow man on the totem pole, a mere jog step above the palooka from the Bronx Home News — Bill Cardoso, The Maltese Sangweech, p. 281, 1984
- The Doll Theater, at Seventh and 48, revolves around an emotionless palooka ramming his three-quarters hard-on into some broad’s snatch atop a pink-spotlighted mattress tilted toward the audience. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 189, 1986
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