1. carries or drags something heavy or awkward with effort
Usage: informal
2. travels or walks laboriously, especially over a long distance
Usage: informal

1. tiresome or awkward people
Usage: informal; plural form

Examples

• She schleps her heavy backpack to school every day.
• He schleps groceries up three flights of stairs.
• We had to schlep all the way across town for the meeting.
• They schlep through the mud to reach the campsite.
• Don’t invite those schleps to the party again.
• The schleps at the office always complain about everything.