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  • noun Plural form of shlep.

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Examples

  • The prayer services (in the social hall of their synagogue) were meaningful, just slow enough to think about what you are saying but not so slow that it "shleps" out.

    English-writing Israeli-bloggers 2008

  • The prayer services (in the social hall of their synagogue) were meaningful, just slow enough to think about what you are saying but not so slow that it "shleps" out.

    Chayyei Sarah 2008

  • A person can emigrate to this country with a dollar and a dream and, if he shleps hard enough, end up szhooshing the White House.

    Tinselgate: My Side of the Story 2010

  • Note, as we still (somewhat exhaustedly) say, the irony: Palin, who shleps her children from coast to coast to display them to her slavering public like what's-his-name in The Dead Zone brandishing a toddler as a human shield, is suddenly protective of their privacy.

    Ellis Weiner: The Stupidity of Sarah Palin, Part 32,459 2010

  • Note, as we still (somewhat exhaustedly) say, the irony: Palin, who shleps her children from coast to coast to display them to her slavering public like what's-his-name in The Dead Zone brandishing a toddler as a human shield, is suddenly protective of their privacy.

    Ellis Weiner: The Stupidity of Sarah Palin, Part 32,459 2010

  • A person can emigrate to this country with a dollar and a dream and, if he shleps hard enough, end up szhooshing the White House.

    Tinselgate: My Side of the Story 2010

  • But my main reaction to learning what the Gazette didn't tell us -- that she used to be an OHRC director -- was pity, pity for the poor shleps upon whom she wreaked her foolishness and ignorance of the law.

    A human rights director fights back! - Ezra Levant 2008

  • But none have been taken before the CHRC tribunal -- even though, unlike the poor shleps who have been, those three groups have actually gone beyond mere words into violent criminal acts.

    How the Canadian Human Rights Commission violates the rule of law - Ezra Levant 2008

  • So she slaps your name it might even be spelled correctly -- bonus points for that and shleps to the nearest Starbucks, patting herself on the back.

    The Personal 'No-Comment': In Which We Need Some Better Terms for Rejections Editorial Anonymous 2008

  • But my main reaction to learning what the Gazette didn't tell us -- that she used to be an OHRC director -- was pity, pity for the poor shleps upon whom she wreaked her foolishness and ignorance of the law.

    Ezra Levant: February 2008 Archives 2008

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