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▪ I. schlep, v. colloq.|ʃlɛp|
Also schlepp, shlep.
[Yiddish shlepn, ad. G. schleppen to drag.]
a. trans. To haul, carry, drag. Also transf. and fig.
1922Joyce Ulysses 48 She trudges, schlepps, trains, drags..her load. 1931L. Steffens Autobiogr. i. xix. 137 By this means the tuglike Schlepper schlepped a string of cargo boats up the Neckar to Heilbron. 1966New Statesman 19 Aug. 261/3, I have a dread of being a martyr. Let them schlep Sonny Liston instead. 1973Jewish Chron. 19 Jan. 11/1 The first thing you remember to do when shown the studio floor is to schlepp the book—out of the briefcase..and at a right moment casually hold up the volume. 1973Publishers Weekly 26 Feb. 125/1 The one thing you would not want to schlep along on a backpacking trip is this book, which runs to over 340 pages. 1975New Yorker 11 Aug. 32/1 When her husband, Sidney, was alive he sustained a rupture, and Mrs. Singer says she had to schlepp him in and out of bed several times a day. 1975R. H. Rimmer Premar Experiments (1976) i. 68 Merle schleps cocktails at the Persian Room in the Sheraton between six and midnight. 1977G. Marton Alarum 189 The cia schlepped you from Moscow to Washington.
b. intr. To toil, to ‘slave’; to go or travel with effort, to traipse. Also with quasi-obj.
1963‘R. L. Pike’ Mute Witness x. 172, I waste a whole evening schlepping around with him. 1964W. Markfield To Early Grave iii. 54 My destiny, my fate..to shlepp for her. 1964S. Bellow Herzog 136 Why should I schlepp out my guts? 1972D. E. Westlake Cops & Robbers (1973) 137 We don't both have to hang around. Why don't you shlep on back to the station. 1978J. Pascall Illustr. Hist. Rock Music 15 As he schlepped his weary way from date to date.
Hence ˈschlepping vbl. n.
1977New Society 3 Mar. 454/3 The endless flat-footed schlepping you have to do at Gatwick or Chicago O'Hare.
▪ II. schlep, n.1 U.S. colloq.|ʃlɛp|
Also schlepp, shlep.
Abbrev. of schlepper.
1939News Letter & Wasp 23 June 13 The name of the radio character known to thousands, Schlepperman, is evidently a personification of ‘schlep’, which means a poor slob. 1963T. Pynchon V. iv. 104 ‘Quiet, shlep,’ said the doctor, scrubbing. 1977New Yorker 19 Sept. 80/3 My teacher can just zero in on one phrase, and it's immediately obvious that what I've done is so immature it makes me feel like an absolute schlepp.
▪ III. schlep, n.2 colloq. (chiefly U.S.).|ʃlɛp|
Also schlepp.
[Yiddish, prob. f. schlep v.]
A troublesome business, a piece of hard work.
1964Economist 1 Aug. 449/3 It was a schlep to find out. 1973L. Snelling Heresy ii. ii. 68 Who thought up this schlepp with the sign, anyway? 1976National Observer (U.S.) 4 Dec. 19-b/3 Anybody who has ever tried to make even a small amount of a classic brown sauce from scratch would probably agree with Liederman's assessment that ‘it's the ultimate schlep’. |