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schlepping

schlepping is the present participle and gerund of schlep.

schlepping is the present participle and gerund of schlepp.

Meaning of schlep

Verb

schlep (third-person singular simple present schleps, present participle schlepping, simple past and past participle schlepped)

  1. (Jewish, informal, slang, transitive) To carry, drag, or lug.
    • I'm exhausted after schlepping those packages around all day.
  2. (Jewish, informal, intransitive, slang) To go, as on an errand; to carry out a task.
    • I schlepped down to the store for some milk.
  3. (Jewish, informal, intransitive, slang) To act in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner.
    • I just schlepped around the house on Sunday.
    Synonyms:
    schlump

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Questions about schlepping

What is schlepping the present participle and gerund of?
Schlepping is the present participle and gerund of schlep.

Words near schlepping in the dictionary

  1. schlepitchka
  2. schlepp
  3. schlepped
  4. schlepper
  5. schleppers
  6. schlepping
  7. schlepps
  8. schleppy
  9. schleps
  10. schlerochronological
  11. schlerophyll

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schlepping (page history and authors); schlep (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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