Meaning of Schlep | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A long or burdensome journey.
   Jewish, New-York-City, informal, slang
2. A boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person.
   Jewish, New-York-City, informal, slang
3. A sloppy or slovenly person.
   Jewish, New-York-City, informal, slang
4. A “pull” or influence.
   Jewish, New-York-City, informal, slang

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Examples

“Sure you can go across town to get⟳ that, but it'd be a schlep.”

“The walk⟳ was a schlep, but it was a schlep Wallace and I did together. I was singing the song about the letters of the alphabet and about alligators and balloons from the Maurice Sendak book that Carole King put⟳ to music.”

“For every genuine, sincere, perceptive resident who is capable and willing to work⟳ and sacrifice, you've got 200-plus who are permanently classifiable as either hustlers, rip-off artists, freeloaders, ganefs, shleps, or out-and-out shmucks!”

“You dug Albert King. You notice⟳ his band is absolutely nothing. They were dead schleps, dead schleps playing behind him and Albert was the only one who really measured up to Albert's own⟳ sound⟳. It was like⟳ they were old tired blues players and it was a drag⟳. But Albert was exquisite.”

“The shocking thing was that he was forty and still chasing girls, still a schlep who was obviously stuck in his adolescent pursuit of sex.”

“Economic scholars might assert that unscholarly, middle class schleps outside the field of economics have⟳ no authority to write⟳ essays that make⟳ such ignorant claims.”

“My father had class? I was completely taken aback. I had never heard my father described that way. To me, he was not a European gentleman but a schlep, someone who preferred chinos to gabardine, comfort to style. My mother used to say⟳ that if she hadn't made him go shopping, he would still be wearing the same ugly suits he wore in the fifties.”

“He must have⟳ had a lot of schlep to get⟳ such good seats.”

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