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BNC: 39711 COCA: 24070

chump

chump /ˈtʃʌmp/ noun
plural chumps
chump
/ˈtʃʌmp/
noun
plural chumps
Learner's definition of CHUMP
[count] informal
: a person who is easy to trick : a stupid or foolish person易受骗的人;傻瓜
BNC: 39711 COCA: 24070
plural chumps
informal : a person who is easily tricked : a stupid or foolish person
When you get down to it, he's a sucker. A chump. He's spent more time and money on me in six weeks than all the men I've known put together. Terry McMillan
see also chump change

Example Sentences

the guy trying to unload that used car must have thought that I was a chump
Recent Examples on the Web Joining the co-hosts in blue-hued purgatory is interim showrunner Michael Davies, who replaced that chump of a man who tried to give himself the hosting gig earlier this year. Devon Ivie, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021 If, as Mock suggests, the organic consumer could be seen as a chump, Constant’s greater disregard may have been for the organic regulators and traders who agreed to take him at his word. Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021 Americans invented business English and confessional poetry; doing business in the UK is an entirely different thing, and confession there is a chump’s game. Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2020 Americans invented business English and confessional poetry; doing business in the UK is an entirely different thing, and confession there is a chump’s game. Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2020 Americans invented business English and confessional poetry; doing business in the UK is an entirely different thing, and confession there is a chump’s game. Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2020 And seeing as your bottled water probably came from municipal pipes anyway, you’re being played for a chump by the roughly $200-billion U.S. beverage industry. Cheers! Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2021 Americans invented business English and confessional poetry; doing business in the UK is an entirely different thing, and confession there is a chump’s game. Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2020 The Justice Department’s real position is that legal technicalities require the judiciary to make a chump out of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

perhaps blend of chunk and lump

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of chump was in 1872
BNC: 39711 COCA: 24070

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