Definitions for chump

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Spelling: [chuhmp]
IPA: /tʃʌmp/

Chump is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in chump (chmpu).

Definitions for chump

noun

  1. Informal. a stupid person; dolt:
  2. a short, thick piece of wood.
  3. the thick, blunt end of anything.
  4. Slang. the head.

Idioms

  1. off one's chump, British Slang. crazy.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to bite or chew; munch.

Origin of chump

1695-1705; perhaps blend of chunk1 and lump1

Examples for chump

And the costs of litigation amount to chump change for guys who count their net worth in nine and 10 figures.

I shall go off my chump if we're not married before I go out.

But he also wants to avoid being made to look like a chump, as repeatedly happened in his first term.

It's only a chump pitcher who keeps the ball over the pan all the time.

I haven't any pity for a man who would be such a chump as that.

I am inclined to think, old boy, that there is a good deal of what they call the chump about me.

I'm only helping the chump to buy some of the experience that you spoke about the other day.

He has given me the very opportunity I most desire, and I'll be a chump if I neglect it!

No wonder Cindy and husband, Doug Hampton, demanded money from this chump.

Why were you such a chump as to turn your back on him like that?

Word Value for chump
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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