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chump

/tʃʌmp/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
  2. (Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
  3. An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
  4. A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
  5. The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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