Get to know Chump better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like fool or victim.
Chump meaning
- An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
- A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
- The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
Using Chump
- The main meaning on this page is: An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser. | A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense. | The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
- Useful related words include: fool, victim, mug, soft touch.
- In the example corpus, chump often appears in combinations such as: chump change, like chump, re chump.
Context around Chump
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 15 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Chump
- In this selection, "chump" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 17.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pump, numbers, wimbledon, change, craig and makes stand out and add context to how "chump" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include chump makes himself and company called chump change until. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "chump" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and abdulai, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with chump
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Everyone needs a chump. (4 words)
Those are rookie numbers, chump. (5 words)
Steube declares support for “Donald J. Chump”. (7 words)
One of the strangest elements of this saga is how a young overachiever could turn into a nasty little thug who would kill random individuals for chump change; Hickman seemed determined to make his once-promising life pointless. (38 words)
There are debris fields made of plastic the size of Texas churning in our oceans, Donald chump could care less, the walking hair cluster fk could care less about plastic waste in our oceans. (34 words)
While Trump is still on the campaign trail, Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, senior aides to Theresa May, then Home Secretary, call the presidential hopeful a ‘chump’ and object to ‘reaching out’ to him. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Makes those thousands of trees seem like chump change.
So, I don’t think you’re a chump, Craig.
Steube declares support for “Donald J. Chump”.
After working together for 22 years, the trio called in quits professionally in July with the dissolving of their production company which made the shows, W. Chump and Sons.
Everyone will think you’re a chump.
White barely put up a fight and looked like a chump.
One of these many weapons is the legendary shotgun called the "One Pump Chump".
Those are rookie numbers, chump.
And in an industry where selling 100,000 copies of a title is enough to make it a respectable bestseller, that’s not chump change.
Chump makes himself look bad because the script calls for it.
He does that a couple of times to get to 30-15 and all of a sudden it looks like Goffin has realised he's playing Djokovic and not some Wimbledon chump.
I could save forty bucks, which isn’t chump change.
In 2003, Connie married Elbert Hanshew who was an electrician and together they worked at his company called Chump Change until his passing.
That is not a chump change investment in call options.
Everyone needs a chump.
Excuse the expression, but your billions “trump” Madigan’s chump change.
Joking or not we’d all take it, him acting like its chump change makes him arrogant and shows how disconnected he is from our real world.
One of the strangest elements of this saga is how a young overachiever could turn into a nasty little thug who would kill random individuals for chump change; Hickman seemed determined to make his once-promising life pointless.
There are debris fields made of plastic the size of Texas churning in our oceans, Donald chump could care less, the walking hair cluster fk could care less about plastic waste in our oceans.
While Trump is still on the campaign trail, Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, senior aides to Theresa May, then Home Secretary, call the presidential hopeful a ‘chump’ and object to ‘reaching out’ to him.
Common combinations with chump
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: