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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
schmo /ʃməʊ/ (also shmo)

▶noun (pl. schmoes) N. Amer. informal a foolish or inept person.

■ (also Joe Schmo) a hypothetical ordinary man.

– origin 1940s: alt. of schmuck.

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