schlepper

Tevye, a lovable schlepper for whom nothing goes right, was a symbol for American Jews at the time.

He could even speak a little Yiddish, from his teenage stint as “a schlepper” at a baby furniture and toy store owned by immigrant Jews and as a Shabbos goy in the neighborhood.

We lived in northwest Baltimore, and my family was part of the schleppers, the blue-collar people, who all lived in these narrow little rowhouses.

"I get a kick. I hear, 'So and so, the elite.' Then you see this guy like this little schlepper. 'This is elite? I'm not elite?'"

Two other trials had the squirrel nut schleppers get four consecutive or random-order nuts, but wherever a squirrel performed its burial rights was where it received its next payout.