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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.