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chump
1[ chuhmp ]
noun
- Informal. a stupid person; dolt:
Don't be a chump—she's kidding you along.
- a short, thick piece of wood.
- the thick, blunt end of anything.
- Slang. the head.
chump
2[ chuhmp ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to bite or chew; munch.
chump
1/ ³Ùʃʌ³¾±è /
noun
- informal.a stupid person
- a thick heavy block of wood
- the thick blunt end of anything, esp of a piece of meat
- ( as modifier )
a chump chop
- slang.the head (esp in the phrase off one's chump )
chump
2/ ³Ùʃʌ³¾±è /
verb
- a less common word for chomp
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- ³¦³ó³Ü³¾±èi²õ³ó adjective
- ³¦³ó³Ü³¾±èi²õ³ó·ness noun
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of chump1
Idioms and Phrases
- off one's chump, British Slang. crazy.
Example Sentences
With or without Trump, the GOP will always showcase populist themes, because it is the perfect vehicle to put a regressive, pro-billionaire agenda over on the chumps.
Republicans have embraced Trump's view that work is for chumps.
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.
"I’m the chump who thought social media could change the world," he told his audience at the Digital Futures Institute.
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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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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