noun
- clumsy or incompetent people; bunglers
- mediocre or unskilled boxers
Usage: informal; plural form
Usage: boxing slang; plural form
Examples
- The coach was frustrated with the stumblebums on his team who kept making basic errors.
- Those stumblebums in accounting mixed up the invoices again.
- The gym was full of stumblebums who couldn’t land a decent punch.
- Don’t trust those stumblebums to handle the delicate equipment.
- The promoter matched the champion against a couple of stumblebums for easy wins.
- We can’t afford to hire any more stumblebums for this important project.