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Examples of chump in a Sentence
the guy trying to unload that used car must have thought that I was a chump
Recent Examples of chump from the Web
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The setup covered all of her expenses and brought in an extra $100 per month in cash — far from chump change for a grad student, and enough that Alexy caught the real estate bug.
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That’s chump change for a federal program, but in the arts, that kind of money goes a long way.
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That might be chump change in the scheme of things, but for an alleged billionaire whose net worth is in a slump, every dollar counts.
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That's chump change when compared with Uber's whopping market valuation of $50 billion to $60 billion.
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That’s chump change in an age in which teams get almost $90 million in national TV revenue to go with the huge local deals ($120 million for the Lakers, $50 million for the Clippers.)
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Game 3, May 15, Honda Center — Red Wings 5, Ducks 0 The Ducks looked like chumps rather than potential champs while losing every conceivable battle, big and small.
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In those days, tuition didn’t exist or was chump change.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. made Canelo Alvarez look like a chump back in 2013.
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Origin and Etymology of chump
perhaps blend of chunk and lump
chump Synonyms
Synonyms
1dupe, gull, mug [chiefly British], patsy, pigeon, pushover, sap, soft touch, sucker, toolRelated Words
cat's-paw, mark, target, victim; schlemiel (also shlemiel); butt, derision, laughingstock, mock, mockery; booby, dodo, fool, goose, half-wit, jackass, lunatic, monkey, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, simp, simpleton, turkey, yo-yo; loser; blockhead, cretin, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, idiot, imbecile, moron, schlub (also shlub) [slang], schlump [slang], schnook [slang]Near Antonyms
cheat, cheater, confidence man, cozener, defrauder, dodger, hoaxer, shark, sharper, slicker, swindler, tricksterCHUMP Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of chump for English Language Learners
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: a person who is easy to trick : a stupid or foolish person
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