Chump

Quick meaning: Chump is a noun meaning (colloquial, derogatory) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

Meaning

(colloquial, derogatory) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

More Meanings

1. (colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
2. The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A person's head or face.
4. Dated form of chomp.
5. (slang, transitive) To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).

Example Sentences

It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump.

That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something.

At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy.

Word Forms

• chumps
• chumping
• chumped

Synonyms for chump

Depending on context, synonyms include blockhead, idiot, dope, dolt, dunce, dummy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fool, schlemiel, mug, mark, sucker, shlemiel.

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