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chump change
noun
a small amount of money US- — Current Slang, p. 15, Fall 1968
- They said that Western whores were lazy and were satisfied with making “chump change.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 285, 1969
- Why should they keep their job as a delivery boy for “chump change” when they could be making big money? — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 141, 1972
- — Carl J. Banks Jr., Banks Dictionary of the Black Ghetto Language, 1975
- Whatever she was doing in partners with the Mafia asshole, who was not even a made man, she calls on him to do a job and treats him like a turd. Knocks him down from his regular rate and pays him off with chump change. — Robert Campbell, Alice in La-La Land, p. 243, 1987
- He pays you chump change. Know what a real driver gets for haulin’ poison waste? — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 39, 1993
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