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(Yiddish) an awkward and stupid person

a tedious or difficult journey

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walk or tramp about

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pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance

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The conversation stumbled and shlepped along, no brilliant jewels anywhere.
Some attended study sessions or social gatherings, while others simply read the synagogue bulletins, supported their spouses in their religious pursuits and shlepped the kids to junior services, Hebrew school or bar/bat mitzvah lessons.
Spying into the private room that contains the captain's table, I notice with some resentment that Buckley has excused himself from the ship's explicit orders regarding formal wear, even with the easily available rentals, while I have shlepped my tuxedo thousands of miles, going so far as to pony up thirty bucks in the jewelry shop to replace forgotten cufflinks, out of misplaced respect for the conservative order of things.
She herself shlepped into Brooklyn College at night and during the day worked as a stenotypist for an electronics firm until--in 1960--the company decided to move to New Jersey.
Sensing their street theater would evoke yawns from a demonstration-jaded public, the protesters devised a strategy so gallingly obnoxious as to ensure widespread media attention: affixed to the normal black garb of many was a yellow star inscribed with 'Jude." Young Haredi boys were shlepped to the demonstration.