Citations:meanderthal

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

 * 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 9781891603068, 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 0743258290, 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 9781598800326, 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 9780307405265, 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 9781440130182, 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.