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Definition of Shlep
1. Verb. Walk or tramp about. "The children shlep to the playground"
2. Noun. (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person.
Category relationships: Yiddish
Generic synonyms: Simple, Simpleton
3. Verb. Pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance. ; "She pulled along a large trunk"
4. Noun. A tedious or difficult journey.
Definition of Shlep
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of schlep) ¹
2. Verb. (alternative spelling of schlep) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shlep
1. to schlep [v SHLEPPED, SHLEPPING, SHLEPS] - See also: schlep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shlep
Literary usage of Shlep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elson's Pocket Music Dictionary: The Important Terms Used in Music with by Louis Charles Elson (1909)
"... and possess a trio. Scherzhaft (Ger.) (s/i?rts-haft.) (sportive, merry.
Schietto (It.) (ske-?i-to.) Simple, plain, neat. Schleppend (Ger.) (shlep- ..."
2. Life and Writings of Grant Thorburn by Grant Thorburn (1852)
"... tending the shlep on the heather hills of Scotland, and without having seen
a college, he confounded the learned Doctors in Edinburgh, with High Dutch, ..."
3. The English Spelling-book: Accompanied by a Progressive Series of Easy and by William Fordyce Mavor (1825)
"shlep supply u$ with food: their flesh is A sheep is a timid animal, and runs
from a dog; yet an ewe will face a dog when a lamb is by her side: she thinks ..."
4. British Farmer's Magazine (1872)
"First and second prizes, Sir J. Marjoribanks of Lees, Bart., Coldstream.
EXTRA shlep.—Commended, J. Caverhill ..."
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