schlepp

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.^[1]

Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃlɛp/

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• Rhymes: -ɛp

schlepp (third-person singular simple present schlepps, present participle schlepping, simple past and past participle schlepped)

1. Alternative form of schlep.
   • 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 142:

     “You schlepp all the way down here, I’m going to deal with you straight.”

schlepp (plural schlepps)

1. Alternative form of schlep.

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schlepp

1. singular imperative of schleppen