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Definitions for chump
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Princeton's WordNet
chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mugnoun
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
GCIDE
Chumpnoun
a stupid person; a fool; a dolt; also, a dupe.
Wiktionary
chumpnoun
An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
chumpnoun
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.
chumpnoun
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
They were shaped as if they had been unskillfully cut off the chump end of something.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Chumpnoun
A thick heavy piece of wood, less than a block.
When one is battered to shivers, they can quickly, of a chump of wood, accommodate themselves with another. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exer.
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chump
A chump is a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gullible. It can also refer to a person who is naive, foolish, or lacking judgment or common sense. This term is often used in a disrespectful or disparaging manner.
Webster Dictionary
Chumpnoun
a short, thick, heavy piece of wood
Etymology: [Cf. Icel. kumbr a chopping, E. chop.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Chump
chump, an end lump of wood: a blockhead: the head.—Off his chump—out of his mind.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
CHUMP
Any one whose opinion differs radically from ours.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of chump in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of chump in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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