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Word entry · 6 letters

schlep

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"Tedious trip"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ʃlɛp/Part of speech noun, verbSorted cehlpsStarts with SEnds with P1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a tedious or difficult journey

Word origin

From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan.

Used in a sentence

  • I'm exhausted after schlepping those packages around all day.
  • Queen Elizabeth will schlep along 95 pieces of baggage on her trip here.
  • We find that what people think is secondary in importance to how people think. What people think, in our opinion, the what, should be viewed as a vehicle that schleps—scientific language—that schleps the how.

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