Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To carry clumsily or with difficulty; lug: schlepped a shopping bag around town.
- v. To move slowly or laboriously: schlepped around with the twins in a stroller.
- n. An arduous journey.
- n. A clumsy or stupid person.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, informal To carry, drag, or lug.
- v. intransitive, informal To go, as on an errand or task.
- v. intransitive, informal To act in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner.
- n. informal A long or burdensome journey.
- n. informal A boring person, a drag.
- n. informal A sloppy or slovenly person.
- n. informal A "pull" or influence.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person
- v. pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance
- n. a tedious or difficult journey
Etymologies
- From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, "to drag"); compare German schleppen ("to drag"). (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish shlepn, to drag, pull, from Middle Low German slēpen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I told my husband that I will never again "schlep" around the house in rags.”
“If you're not familiar with the word schlep, in its noun form, it means arduous journey.”
“In another puzzle the clue "Lug Laboriously" led to the Yiddish word schlep.”
The Huffington Post: Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.: Glenn Back, Gay Avech
“ZARRELLA: The schlep was the talk of his grandparents 'retirement community.”
“ZARRELLA: The schlep was the talk of his grandparents 'retirement community -- so much so, a crowd of more than 100 packed a ballroom to hear his pitch.”
“ZARRELLA: The schlep was the talk of his grandparents 'retirement community, so much so a crowd of more than 100 packed a ballroom to hear his pitch.”
“Or, if you're a kosher cyclocrosser, you may "schlep" your bike over barriers and worry about whether your frame has adequate "schmutz clearance.”
Weight of the World: Shouldering Burdens, Rationalizing Decisions
“I didn't really need it; I just wanted to make him "schlep" it all the way to Brooklyn since it seemed like an appropriately intern-y thing to do.”
Keeping Up Appearances: Filling the House, Clearing the Bike Lane
“In order to personally learn something of the great pleasure to be had spending a few hours with Nicolle Rochelle, I urge everyone: make the 'schlep' to New Jersey.”
“GreatSchlep has also established a Facebook. com group that provides instructions on what to do and say when members "schlep" home to campaign for Obama on or around Columbus Day.”
The Washington Post: Jewish Democrats Asked to 'Schlep' Home for Obama
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘schlep’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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February 2012
filiopietistic, bifurcate, enclave, wedlock, decadent, unduly, defunct, lapel, tumescent, capitulation, leaden, scintilla and 83 more...
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Filter 1
Hard words level 1
besotted, altricial, consecrate, consternate, desuetude, detractor, dissolute, divisive, emaciated, enamored, ensconce, garishly and 76 more...
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Shhh!
ashlar, flesh, shorn, haberdashery, mission, shackle, facial, passion, shuck, action, sheraton, cashew and 6 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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anotherfailedattempt's Words
kakistocracy, conflagration, pollyanna, equanimity, punctillious, obstreperous, ribald, belligerent, truculent, verbose, lachrymose, onanism and 278 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for schlep.
bilby Ha, c_b. Feb 11, 2009
john "The Great Schlep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor." Sep 26, 2008
chained_bear "At dawn we schlepped." Feb 14, 2007