Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a long and unappealing distance.

1958		Mad mag. Sept.–Oct. 9: I have a dog. His name is Schlep.
1962		F. Norman Guntz 149: It is quite a shlap from Broadway.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 62: She who was the middle daughter of five achieving siblings of Russian peasants also making the long schlepp to the New World.
1978		R. Price Ladies’ Man (1985) 169: That’s quite a schlep, huh?
1995		J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 276: A fun-filled shlep from Cedars-Sinai to the Gene Autry Cowboy Museum.
2001		N. Barlay Hooky Gear 216: Back up Fairlop Plain bein the obvious answer only its a right schlepp.
2010		IOL News (Western Cape) 13 Dec. 🌐 The author defines slackpacking as ‘backpacking without the schlep’.
2015		(con. 1950s) http://spitalfieldslife.com/ 2 Aug. 🌐 We had to get the bus to London Bridge, take the train to East Croydon and change to another near Gatwick Airport [...] It was a schlep at seven o’clock in the morning all through the winter.

2. a (tiring) walk.

2009

T. Black Gutted 61: I took a schlep through Holyrood Park, slugging on a bottle of scoosh.