Citations:meanderthal

English citations of meanderthal

Noun: "(slang, derogatory) an aimless, slow-moving person"

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• 1950 — "The Tortoise and the Hot Rod", The American Legion Magazine, Volumes 48-59:

  I don't mind driving slowly behind

  Yon ten-mile-an-hour sedan,

  I don't mind being forced to drive blind

  By this creeping, Meanderthal man;

• 2000 — Dan Levine, Paris: Insiders' Guide for Urban Adventurers, Empire Press (2000), →ISBN, page 39:

  It takes 60 to 90 minutes to walk from the Eiffel Tower to the Marais, depending on how many slow-moving "Meanderthals" are in your way.

• 2002 — Jack Brubaker, "Meanderthals and freedestrians make driving in the city a challenge", Lancaster New Era, 23 July 2002:

  Cellphone-toting meanderthals are dangerous because they are oblivious to their surroundings. Baby-stroller-pushing meanderthals could wipe out the next generation. Meanderthals of any kind survive only because most drivers use their brakes.

• 2004 — Paco Underhill, Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping, Simon & Schuster (2004), →ISBN, page 42:

  There's even a term for it — poky pedestrians are known as meanderthals.

• 2005 — Val Mallinson, The Dog Lover's Companion to the Pacific Northwest: The Inside Scoop on Where to Take Your Dog, Avalon Travel (2009), →ISBN, page 180:

  […] Isis wonders who coined the term "meanderthals," to describe those who wander endlessly without shopping at flagship stores Nordstrom, J. C. Penney, and Bon Marché (now Macy's).

• 2008 — Richard Dooling, Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ, Three Rivers Press (2008), →ISBN, page 26:

  […] cell phones have sweeping power… to turn millions of people — whether afoot or "driving" in cars — into self-absorbed, loudmouthed, meandering meanderthals).

• 2009 — Steven Burgauer, A More Perfect Union, iUniverse (2009), →ISBN, page 95:

  His petite, carefree wife took to calling him a "meanderthal." […] This little gem of hers was a merger of "meander" and "Neanderthal" — meanderthal — an aimless, slow-moving ape-man who mindlessly got in everyone's way, at home, on the sidewalk, in the mall, all because he was preoccupied with his own problems.

• 2011 — "Text at your own risk", Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2011:

  Judging from the creeping cell-bound meanderthals on Michigan Avenue, we'd say those scientists need to check their equipment.