Sekirov Dictionary

chump

/t͡ʃʌmp/

noun 4
verb 2
forms 3
phrases 2

noun4

•
(informal, disapproving) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
- That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
•
(informal, disapproving) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
- It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump.
•
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
- Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something. — 1861
(slang, no longer used) A person's head or face.

verb2

(slang) To treat (someone) as a chump; to defraud or swindle (someone).
•
(old-fashioned) Dated form of chomp.
- At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy. — 1922

forms

chumped · chumping · chumps

Phrases with chump

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