schlepper

Related to schlepper: klutziness

schlepper

1. slang A person who hauls or carries things for someone else; a servant or porter. From Yiddish. I worked as a schlepper for a hotel for a few years, and I actually made pretty decent money from tips. Carry your own bag—I'm not your schlepper!
2. slang A laborer or worker. From Yiddish. The company doesn't care a fig for our comfort or happiness. We're just a bunch of schleppers to them, and in their eyes, we can be replaced at the drop of a hat! The huge work site was crawling with schleppers from all over the world.
3. slang A foolish, bumbling, or incompetent person. From Yiddish. What a bunch of schleppers! First they get my order wrong, then they send it to the wrong address, and now they're trying to refund me the wrong amount of money! Jeff is managing the project? That schlepper couldn't manage his own sock drawer.
4. slang Someone who wastes time or fails to act. From Yiddish. Don't just stand there like a schlepper—do something! Tom's always been a bit of a schlepper. First he flunked out of college, then he lived at home with no job for a few years, and now he's just flipping burgers at a fast food joint.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

schlepper

and shlepper (ˈʃlɛpɚ)
n. an annoying person who always wants a bargain or a favor. (see also schlep.) Why am I surrounded by people who want something from me? Is this a schlepper colony or what?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • shlepper
  • mensch
  • shlimazel
  • shlimazl
  • schlemozzle
  • schlemazel
  • schlemiel
  • schlemihl
  • shlemiel
  • nudnik
References in periodicals archive
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I'm glad Woody gets a blank check to shoot in Barcelona and the South of France, but I miss the New York schleppers who populated his early films like "Manhattan" and "Broadway Danny Rose." These were Woody's people.
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Maintaining a sizable and expert staff ("these are really talented people, not schleppers," Cantor says) takes money.
Dan Cantor's machine
Clark and Jerry had something else in common: both were classic schleppers. Clark and Superman lived life the way most newly arrived Jews did, torn between their Old and New World identities and their mild exteriors and rock-solid cores.
Superman's Jewish roots
Low wages in relation to work load, constant overtime, and an often reported bad work climate result in lower levels of job satisfaction (Heinke, Dunkel, Brahler, Nubling, Riedel-Heller & Kailsers, 2009; Welker, Baumgart, Baja, Schropl & Schleppers, 2010).
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[3.] Meissner W., Rothaug J., Zwacka S., Schleppers A.
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We were the New Jersey Schleppers. I remember Ralph's expression of joy when I would reach shore on the swim; I remember the expression of love I saw on his face when JoAnn once gave an impromptu cello recital at their home.
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From textiles to furniture and then back to the city for tabletop, the caravan of buyers and schleppers can finally put things to rest, at least for a few weeks before the whole process starts again in January.
OCTOBERFEST
He is befriended by Rose (Argwings Khodek), a black drag actor of legendary fame in Alphabet City; by Fiona Yet (Muffy MacIlvain, Susan Strong), a child of an adoring, wealthy, liberal family; and by True Shot (Peter Morales), a handsome Latino who has started his own moving business, Spirit Schleppers, out of his Dodge van.
In the City of Shy Hunters