shlep
- n (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person
- n a tedious or difficult journey
- v walk or tramp about
- v pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance
Can you shlep this bag of potatoes upstairs?
- The European-based players have to shlep themselves all the way across the Atlantic every couple of months to join the national squad for World Cup qualifiers against lesser teams .
- What the Hell difference does it make to the poor shlep on the street what the terror alert level means? There's nothing I can do at the yellow, orange, or red level except shoot .
- By his own account, he was a failure and "total shlep" for most of his life, dropping out of Ohio State dental school and blundering at an odd succession of jobs, from designing .