schloep, noun
/ʃlʊp/
- Forms:
- Also schloop, shloop.
- Origin:
- Probably a rendering of the sucking sound made by children as a response to a class-mate’s ‘sucking up’ to a teacher.
slang
A toady or bootlicker.
1962 Informant, Port ElizabethThey think you’re a schloep if you help the teacher with anything.
1980 C. Hope A Separate Development (1983) 7An open, honest, anxious guy who’d begun life as a class schloep, a toady, before he’d come over to us, the bad eggs of the class.
A toady or bootlicker.
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