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shlentering

shlentering is the present participle and gerund of shlenter.

Meaning of shlenter

Verb

shlenter (third-person singular simple present shlenters, present participle shlentering, simple past and past participle shlentered)

  1. (rare, transitive) To acquire in an underhanded way.
  2. (rare, transitive) To scam, fool, deceive, trick.
    • In the time I spend at Rhodes I will encounter many brilliant minds and come to understand principles, strategies and tactics, caucusing, shlentering, back-stabbing, manipulation, campaigning, alliances – and I will also witness the depths of human determination and depravity, and the utter...2016, Bridget Hilton-Barber, Student Comrade Prisoner Spy: A memoir

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Questions about shlentering

What is shlentering the present participle and gerund of?
Shlentering is the present participle and gerund of shlenter.

Words near shlentering in the dictionary

  1. shlemiels
  2. shlemozzle
  3. shlemozzles
  4. shlenter
  5. shlentered
  6. shlentering
  7. shlenters
  8. shlep
  9. shlepp
  10. shlepped
  11. shlepper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shlentering (page history and authors); shlenter (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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