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chump

1

[ chuhmp ]

noun

  1. Informal. a stupid person; dolt:

    Don't be a chump—she's kidding you along.

  2. a short, thick piece of wood.
  3. the thick, blunt end of anything.
  4. Slang. the head.


chump

2

[ chuhmp ]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to bite or chew; munch.

chump

1

/ ʃʌ /

noun

  1. informal.
    a stupid person
  2. a thick heavy block of wood
    1. the thick blunt end of anything, esp of a piece of meat
    2. ( as modifier )

      a chump chop

  3. slang.
    the head (esp in the phrase off one's chump )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

chump

2

/ ʃʌ /

verb

  1. a less common word for chomp
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ܳi adjective
  • ܳi·ness noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of chump1

1695–1705; perhaps blend of chunk 1 and lump 1

Origin of chump2

First recorded in 1850–55; variant of champ 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of chump1

C18: perhaps a blend of chunk and lump 1
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. off one's chump, British Slang. crazy.
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Example Sentences

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Republicans have embraced Trump's view that work is for chumps.

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Around the same time, I convinced my friend Sam that we couldn’t be just another pair of chumps at our parents’ offices on Career Day.

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"I’m the chump who thought social media could change the world," he told his audience at the Digital Futures Institute.

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They also often seem to confirm the authoritarians’ claims that democracy itself is “weaker” than authoritarianism—and that playing by the rules is for chumps.

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It's because both stories epitomize the chump we all know McCarthy to be.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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