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verb (used with object)
1.
to carry; lug: to schlep an umbrella on a sunny day.
verb (used without object)
2.
to move slowly, awkwardly, or tediously: We schlepped from store to store all day.
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Schlepp
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
noun
3.
Also, schlep·per. someone or something that is tedious, slow, or awkward; drag.
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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
EXPAND"person of little worth" (1934), from schlep (v.).
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Slang Dictionary
schlep definition[ʃlɛp]and shlep
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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