schlepverb [ I or T, + adv/prep ]
-pp- also schlepp uk/ʃlep/us/ʃlep/mainly US informalto move yourself or an object with effort and difficulty:
Do I really have to schlep all that junk down to the cellar?
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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
- blunder
- bumble
- doddery
- falter
- galumphing
- limp
- lollop
- lumber
- lurch
- reel
- shamble
- shuffle
- slog
- squeeze
- stagger
- stumble
- toil
- totter
- trip (sb) up
- waddle
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schlepnoun [ S ]
also schlepp uk/ʃlep/us/ʃlep/mainly US informalsomething that takes a lot of effort to do:
It's a real schlep getting it all home.
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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