verb
- to carry or drag something heavy or awkward
- to walk or travel with effort, especially when tired
Usage: informal; Yiddish origin
Usage: informal; Yiddish origin
noun
- a tedious or difficult journey
Usage: informal; Yiddish origin
Examples
- She shleps her heavy backpack to school every day.
- I don’t want to shlep all these groceries upstairs.
- After working late, he shleps home on the subway.
- The commute to the office is such a shlep.
- Stop shlepping that old suitcase and get a new one.
- It’s a real shlep to get to the airport from here.