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Definitions for sad sack

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

sad′ sack`(n.)

  1. a pathetically inept person.

Origin of sad sack:

after the cartoon character created in 1942 by U.S. cartoonist George Baker (1915–75)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup(noun)

    someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

Wiktionary

  1. sad sack(Noun)

    An incompetent or inept person.

  2. sad sack(Noun)

    A perennial victim of misfortune.

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