Meanings
present singular third person schlepps · participle present schlepping · participle past schlepped · past schlepped
- alternativeAlternative form of schlep.
“You schlepp all the way down here, I’m going to deal with you straight.”
2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 142
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*sleupan
- Old High Germansleifen“to drag”
- Middle Low Germanslêpen
- Middle High Germanslepen
- Yiddishשלעפּן“to drag”
- Englishschlepp
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. Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).
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schlepp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schlepp
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