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schlepper colloq. (chiefly U.S.).|ˈʃlɛpə(r)|
Also shlepper.
[Yiddish, f. schlep v.: see -er1.]
A person of little worth, a fool, a ‘jerk’; a pauper, a beggar, a scrounger; an untidy person; (see also quot. 1934).
1934Amer. Speech IX. 284/1 A customer who shops from store to store continually trying on shoes but not buying is known as a shlepper. 1949S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! i. 13 In vain I protested that my dependents would be reduced to beggary; the editor's face remained flinty. ‘About time those schleppers went to work,’ he grunted. 1950G. Marx Let. 20 Mar. (1967) 72 The paupers, or schlepper crowd, still hang on to their portable radios, but unfortunately they're not the ones who buy Chryslers. 1954Ibid. 4 Aug. 59 Women always seem so much more joyous than men when another schlepper gets hooked. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 346 Hike up your slip; straighten your seams; you look like a shlepper. 1973Jewish Chron. 19 Jan. 10/4 A ‘star’, you should pardon the expression, is never short of schleppers. And schleppers are like the tides of the ocean. If you make a hit film, they come in and almost drown you. If you make a flop, they recede into the distance. 1977Rolling Stone 24 Mar., I've got a message for the Penelopes of this world. It's high time they say to their Ulysseses, ‘Okay Schlepper, you've been around the world, your turn to keep the home fires burning, I'm splitting on my own trip for a while.’ |