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plural chumps
(colloquial, derogatory) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. quotations examples
What chumps! Didn’t they realize that all they had to do was interpret the constitutional term “the Legislature” to mean “the people”?
2015, chief justice John G. Roberts, dissenting in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission et al., June 29 2015
(colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense. quotations examples
Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams.
2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat. quotations examples
Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something.
1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter X
third-person singular simple present chumps, present participle chumping, simple past and past participle chumped
Dated form of chomp. quotations examples
At a neighbouring table two Germans were making a hearty meal, chumping the meat and smacking their lips in a kind of heavy ecstasy.
1922, Arthur Machen, The Secret Glory