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How to pronounce shlep in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms schlep, schlepper, shlepper
Type of simpleton, simple
Type Words
Synonyms schlep
Type of journeying, journey
Type Words
Synonyms traipse
Type of walk
Type Words
Synonyms pull along, schlep
Type of drag
Has types tow


Can you shlep this bag of potatoes upstairs?.

Examples of shlep

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We don't want anyone to feel like they need to shlep out here.
From the gothamgal.com
It is a pudding I would happily shlep over to Cornwall to try.
From the guardian.co.uk
The goodie trip food shlep doesn't have to be a foreign trip.
From the sfgate.com
Hard to imagine that taggers would be so desperate for a canvas that they'd shlep cans of spray paint into a national park, but there it is.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Schlepper: (Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person
  • Traipse: walk or tramp about
  • Pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance; "Can you shlep this bag of potatoes upstairs?"; "She pulled along a large trunk"
  • Schlep: a tedious or difficult journey
  • Alternative spelling of schlep; Alternative spelling of schlep
  • Drag, carry or haul, particularly unnecessary things, parcels or baggage; to go somewhere unwillingly or unwantedly
  • (shlehp) Yiddish: to carry; to travel; to lug: "I shlepped the kids all over town today."
  • Carry something heavy.