Meaning & use
schlepping
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Carrying or hauling something heavy or cumbersome with effort, typically over some distance.
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We spent the afternoon schlepping boxes up three flights of stairs.
I'm tired of schlepping my laptop back and forth to the office every day.
A note on using this word
From Yiddish shlepn (to drag), it entered American English informal speech and is often used with a note of weary complaint.
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lugginghauling
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