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chump
noun- a fool; a naive person who is easily duped US, 1876
- I’d acted like a chump. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 9, 1952
- That Carlisle was a big, fatheaded chump. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 101, 1960
- Don’t be a chump. Don’t bet any more money on that damn fool shot. — The Hustler, 1961
- — Current Slang, p. 15, Fall 1968
- He said, “Gonzi, Miles and Vernon were trying to use me so I burned both them chumps.” — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 63, 1975
- How about laying some more fast run-down on me ... like has her old man got any chump shortcomings ... craps, hard shit or what not? — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 24, 1979
- I said to her, “Baby, nobody makes a chump outta me.” Now I’m living at the Travel-Lodge, and she’s living in my house for free. — Airheads, 1994
- I don’t want to do any coke. It’s a terrible drug. It’s for chumps. — Kenneth Lonergan, This is Our Youth, p. 47, 2000
- the head UK, 1859
- People thought he’d gone off his chump. They thought he was a hopeless drunk. — Guardian, 14 February 2004
▶ off your chump
in any degree, mad UK, 1864- CLARICE: I’m getting worried–he’s gone off his chump. TOM: Not he, not he — John O’Toole, The Bush and the Tree, p. 27, 1960
- C: Eric the Half-Bee. He had an accident. S: You’re off your chump. C: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquiallism to imply that my sanity is not up to scratch, or indeed to deny the semi-existence of my little chum Eric the Hallittle chum Eric the Half-Bee, I shall have to ask you to listen to this! — Graham Chapman, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, 1970
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