Schlep (verb)
shlep
(informal) To carry, to lug.
First recorded in 1910–15; from Yiddish shlepn “to pull, drag, (intransitive) trudge,” from German schleppen, “to draw, tug, haul”
Example sentences
“It must be exhausting to schlep those hateful attitudes around with you all the time.”
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