Meaning & use
schlepper
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A person who carries or hauls things laboriously; also, an awkward, unimpressive, or clumsy person.
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The moving crew hired a couple of schleppers for the day.
He felt like a schlepper lugging boxes up five flights of stairs.
A note on using this word
"Schlepper" is the agent noun of "schlep," from Yiddish "shlepn," meaning to drag or haul.
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