Shlep
Brits arriving in Germany are often surprised by Americans who go on about shlepping their bags across town. Don't worry – your American friend who's lived in Berlin just six months isn't more integrated than you. Shlep is American slang – via Yiddish – for lug or tote, or “carry labouriously” as posh people would say, if they ever actually had to do it themselves, that is.
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