shlep

schlep

1. verb, slang To haul something, especially in an awkward or ungainly manner. From Yiddish. The apartment building I moved into didn't have an elevator, so I had to schlep all my stuff up the stairs. My mom doesn't drive, so I bought her a rolling shopping cart so she doesn't have to schlep her groceries from the store anymore.
2. noun, slang A tedious, arduous, or inconvenient journey. From Yiddish. If we're going to make the schlep all the way across the country, then we might as well take the minivan. It's always been a bit of a schlep between here and the center of town, but the new light rail system should hopefully make it a much easier commute.
3. noun, slang A foolish, bumbling, or incompetent person. From Yiddish. What a bunch of schleps! 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 schlep couldn't manage his own sock drawer.

shlep

1. verb, slang To haul something, especially in an awkward or ungainly manner. From Yiddish. The apartment building I moved into didn't have an elevator, so I had to shlep all my stuff up the stairs. My mom doesn't drive, so I bought her a rolling shopping cart so she doesn't have to shlep her groceries from the store anymore.
2. noun, slang A tedious, arduous, or inconvenient journey. From Yiddish. If we're going to make the shlep all the way across the country, then we might as well take the minivan. It's always been a bit of a shlep between here and the center of town, but the new light rail system should hopefully make it a much easier commute.
3. noun, slang A foolish, bumbling, or incompetent person. From Yiddish. What a bunch of shleps! 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 shlep couldn't manage his own sock drawer.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

schlep

and shlep (ʃlɛp)
1. 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?
2. n. a journey; a distance to travel or carry something. It takes about twenty minutes to make the schlep from here to there.
3. 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.

shlep

verb
See schlep
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • schlep
  • schlepp
  • schlepping
  • flag
  • flagged
  • flagging
  • jockey around
  • gangshag
  • dished
References in periodicals archive
Towards the end of the slinky after-hours cocktail jazz of "Schleppin My Baby Back Home," Katz slips into a Jolson warble and sings, "Now, we shlep along and I'm singin' a song, the title is `The Thrill is Gone.'"(18) It was a Yiddishified verse that Jolson/Jack Robin would never have sung himself.
The Yiddish Are Coming: Mickey Katz, Antic-Semitism, and the Sound of Jewish Difference(1)
of 106; those stopped but not booked have to shlep along at 103; those booked but not convicted check in at 101; the convicted but not incarcerated peer dimly from a 100 wattage; and those who go to jail vegetate at 93.
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
The word "schlep" therefore becomes "shlep"; "mensch" becomes "mentsh." If you look up these words in some American dictionaries, you will find that the word with the "c" is now considered an official word in the English language, while the version without the "c" is listed as the original Yiddish origin of the word.
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In a four minute video she entreats young Democratic Jews to "Shlep yourselves over to Florida to [get your grandparents to] vote [for U.S.
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For better or worse, you feel that you know him, and you want to be there along with him, helping shlep the luggage.
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But if he had only written Kagan's Superfecta (1991), a novel about a man who bets the numbers of the coming Jewish year on a horse race, I would happily shlep his teffilin bag to wherever he davens "Shachris." Why so?
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It's "a war we may not be able to win, a war we shouldn't even be in," he reminds Xanthias, the slave he has recruited to shlep his huge bag of togas and toiletries.
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How could they possibly think that he should shlep the goyish icons through the streets of Havana?
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"If THEY sold matzot in the stores the way it was before the war, we wouldn't have to shlep all the way to the other side of the city."
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