schlep

Use Schlep in a sentence

verb (used with object)

to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.

verb (used without object)

to move slowly, awkwardly, or tediously: We schlepped from store to store all day.

noun

Also, schlep·per. someone or something that is tedious, slow, or awkward; drag.

Also, schlepp, shlep, shlepp.

Origin:
1920–25; < Yiddish shlepn to pull, drag, (intransitive) trudge < Middle High German dialect sleppen < Middle Low German, Middle Dutch slēpen; cognate with Middle High German, Old High German sleifen (German schleifen); akin to slip¹, slippery

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schlep (ʃlɛp)

—vb , schleps, schlepping, schlepped
1.	to drag or lug (oneself or an object) with difficulty

—n
2.	a stupid or clumsy person
3.	an arduous journey or procedure

[Yiddish, from German schleppen]

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

schlep

"to carry or drag," 1922 (in Joyce's "Ulysses"), from Yiddish shlepen "to drag," from M.H.G. sleppen, related to O.H.G. sleifen "to drag," and slifan "to slide, slip" (cf. M.E. slippen; see slip (v.)). The noun meaning "stupid person, loser" is from 1939, short for schlepper

"person of little worth" (1934), from schlep (v.).

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Slang Dictionary

schlep definition

[ʃlɛp]
and shlep

tv.
to drag or carry someone or something. (From German schleppen via Yiddish.) : Am I supposed to schlep this whole thing all the way back to the store?
n.
a journey; a distance to travel or carry something. : It takes about twenty minutes to make the schlep from here to there.
n.
a stupid person; a bothersome person. (Literally, a drag.) : Ask that shlep to wait in the hall until I am free. I'll sneak out the back way.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences

The restaurant also has to be the best place in town to end up after a long day's schlep.

Your average grill is a pain to lug up to the rooftop, schlep to a park, or perch on a fire escape.

Then she worried that she would have to schlep around all of her books and

research materials.

She never complained as she helped me schlep ten cases of heavy equipment

during a hot summer.

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