schlep

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Definitions

  • v. To travel from one place to another when one would prefer not to.

  • n. An annoyingly long journey.

  • v. To carry, lug.

Example Sentences

  • "Why would you schlep all of that stuff?"

  • "I shlepped all the way to the Valley for this?!"

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  • "I thought about going to the exhibit, but it was just too long a shlep."

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • שלעפּן shlepn 'pull, carry, lug' (verbal stem is שלעפּ shlep)

      • Who Uses This

      • Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
      • Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)

      Regions

      • North America
      • Australia / New Zealand
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • Frumspeak: The First Dictionary of Yeshivish, by Chaim Weiser (Northvale, 1995).
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      Alternative Spellings

      shlep, shlepp

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