Crossword clues for schlep
schlep
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to carry or drag," 1922 (in Joyce's "Ulysses"), from Yiddish shlepen "to drag," from Middle High German sleppen, related to Old High German sleifen "to drag," and slifan "to slide, slip" (cognate with Middle English slippen; see slip (v.)). Related: Schlepped; schlepping.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive informal English) To carry, drag, or lug. 2 (context intransitive informal English) To go, as on an errand or task. 3 (context intransitive informal English) To act in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. n. 1 (context informal English) A long or burdensome journey. 2 (context informal English) A boring person, a drag. 3 (context informal English) A sloppy or slovenly person. 4 (context informal English) A "pull" or influence. vb. 1 (context transitive informal English) To carry, drag, or lug. 2 (context intransitive informal English) To go, as on an errand or task. 3 (context intransitive informal English) To act in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner.
WordNet
v. pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance; "Can you shlep this bag of potatoes upstairs?"; "She pulled along a large trunk" [syn: shlep, pull along]
Usage examples of "schlep".
Prairie grabbed a kettle of institutional tomato soup, carried it on in, and for the next couple of hours she also schlepped racks of newly washed cups and dishes in and bused dirty dishes out, cleaned off tabletops, poured coffee, going from one set of chores to another as they arose, sensing partial vacuums and flowing there to fill them, unable to help noticing that people were taking seconds on the Spinach Casserole, and the baloney too.
Somebody, it seemed, was proposing to schlep leprechauns over from the Auld Sod in hiberniation, revive them once they got here, and establish a colony in Angels City.
I tied the boat to a tree, took out the fuel line, and hiked inland, schlepping the beer cooler.
And then they seize me calmly, without malice, having known all along that it was bound to come to this in the end, and they strip me, they thrust the wooden stake into my heart, they nail me to a towering saguaro, they press me to death beneath flat rocks, they rub chollas into my eyes, they burn me alive, they bury me chest-deep in an anthill, they castrate me with their fingernails, all the while solemnly chanting, Schmeggege, schlemihl, schlemqzel, schmendrick, schlep!
We've heard that he's no longer schlepping hate pamphlets, that he's cleaned up the seedier aspects of his act, and that him and his Mormons are getting tight with that wellknown political retread Richard M.
So they see the water going, come over to check it out, I back away so they don't go blind and realize what's up, they push it back in place, door doesn't finish opening, I schlep back over and push the rock: lather, rinse, repeat.
Farben Gesellschaft, despite the fact that they’d schlepped their own.
I got him sacked at last and back we schlepped to Mine City, Colossus of Compost, Mother of Methane, Daughter of Destruction, with the two-ringed Saturn behind us.
They waved to the researchers at the fuel dock, nodded to the haglets at the charter booths, shakaed the divemasters and the captains, and schlepped science stuff down the dock to start their day.
And to be honest, it makes the rest of us schleps afraid to be around you, afraid you'll look at us and disapprove.