English
Etymology
From Yiddish ש�עפּ�, to drag; from High German schleppen to drag.
Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�p�(r)|-�p�(r)
Noun
schlepper
- a servant who carries things
#* Tell the schlepper to take it up to your hotel room.
- a porter
- a pejorative insult for an individual who wanders aimlessly
#* as in schlepping his donkey behind him.
#* I can't interest the little schlepper in doing his homework.
Related terms
schlep
schmuck
Quotations
1999: Woody Allen adored the scene, and sent up the figure in both film (â��Love and Deathâ��) and fiction: in a piece called â��Death Knocks,â�� the Grim Reaper reappears for a game of gin rummy with a schlepper — The New Yorker, 13 May 1999
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