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Schlepper
Schlepper
See also: schlepper
German
Noun
Schlepper m (genitive Schleppers, plural Schlepper)
- criminal individual who organises human trafficking or people smuggling
- tugboat (boat used to pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels)
- platter lift (system for pulling skiers uphill, along the surface of the slope)
Declension
Declension of Schlepper
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Schlepper | die | Schlepper |
| genitive | eines | des | Schleppers | der | Schlepper |
| dative | einem | dem | Schlepper | den | Schleppern |
| accusative | einen | den | Schlepper | die | Schlepper |
schlepper
schlepper
See also: Schlepper
English
Noun
schlepper (plural schleppers)
- A servant who carries things; a porter.
- Tell the schlepper to take it up to your hotel room.
- (pejorative) One who wanders aimlessly.
- I can't interest the little schlepper in doing his homework.
- (pejorative) Any manual laborer, or other lowly employee.
- He's just a schlepper!
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Quotations
- 1999: Woody Allen adored the scene, and sent up the figure in both film (“Love and Death”) and fiction: in a piece called “Death Knocks,” the Grim Reaper reappears for a game of gin rummy with a schlepper — The New Yorker, 13 May 1999