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Schlep
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- 1 A long or burdensome journey. Jewish, New-York-City, informal, slang
"Sure you can go across town to get that, but it'd be a schlep."
- 2 a tedious or difficult journey wordnet
- 3 A boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person. Jewish, New-York-City, informal, slang
"For every genuine, sincere, perceptive resident who is capable and willing to work and sacrifice, you've got 200-plus who are permanently classifiable as either hustlers, rip-off artists, freeloaders, ganefs, shleps, or out-and-out shmucks!"
- 4 (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person wordnet
- 5 A sloppy or slovenly person. Jewish, New-York-City, informal, slang
"My father had class? I was completely taken aback. I had never heard my father described that way. To me, he was not a European gentleman but a schlep, someone who preferred chinos to gabardine, comfort to style. My mother used to say that if she hadn't made him go shopping, he would still be wearing the same ugly suits he wore in the fifties."
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- 6 A “pull” or influence. Jewish, New-York-City, informal, slang
"He must have had a lot of schlep to get such good seats."
- 1 To carry, drag, or lug. Jewish, New-York-City, informal, slang, transitive
"I'm exhausted after schlepping those packages around all day."
- 2 pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance wordnet
- 3 To go, as on an errand; to carry out a task. Jewish, New-York-City, informal, intransitive, slang
"I schlepped down to the store for some milk."
- 4 To act in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. Jewish, New-York-City, informal, intransitive, slang
"I just schlepped around the house on Sunday."
Etymology
From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan. Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).
From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan. Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).
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