schlepper

• Rhymes: -ɛpə(r)

From schlep +‎ -er.

schlepper (plural schleppers)

1. A servant who carries things; a porter.

   Tell the schlepper to take it up to your hotel room.

Borrowed from Yiddish שלעפּער‎ (shleper).

schlepper (plural schleppers)

1. (derogatory) One who wanders aimlessly.

   I can't interest the little schlepper in doing his homework.

2. (derogatory) Any manual laborer, or other lowly employee.

   He's just a schlepper!

• schlep
• schmuck

• 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