chump v.
1. (also chump out) to trick, to deceive, to make a fool of someone.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | (con. 1920s) South of Heaven (1994) 146: You had to be chumped for murderin’ Bud. | |
| Current Sl. V:3. | |
| Spidertown (1994) 82: If I’m so important, why he chump me out by throwin’ me inna car fulla psycho cops, man? |
2. (US black) to act like a fool, to be exploited.
| Pimp 210: They know in their sucker tickers they’re chumping. |
In phrases
1. to lose money irresponsibly.
| Hungry Men 241: ‘Where did you get those tailor-mades?’ [...] ‘I chumped off.’. | |
| Mama Black Widow 164: He got trimmed in a blackjack game [...] All them whores got in the wind when they got hip how he chumped off. |
2. to dupe.
| Farm (1968) 103: I never could figure how I chumped myself off on something like that. | |
| It Ain’t All for Nothin 118: ‘[T]hey try to get next to another guy’s kids and then chump him off by being nice’. | |
| Bad Sex on Speed 138: The two plain-looking gentlemen hipsters head down Broadway, chumping off you-know-who. |
3. to defeat in a verbal battle.
| Black Jargon in White America 60: chump (you) off v. to verbally defeat someone; to get the better of one in a battle of words. | |
| Hoops 44: ’’What did you ever do for your own people?’ Paul asked. That got me mad because I felt I was being chumped off . |
4. to act like a fool.
| Airtight Willie and Me 81: I swore a thousand times I’d never chump off my life in a steel mill like my old man. |
5. (US black) to reject, to dismiss, to cause someone to depart or to abandon an activity.
| Hoops 105: I’d say they chumped me off so they could let some white boy on the team. | |
| Scorpions 158: ‘I think he looking for a way to chump me off so he can take over the Scorpions’. | |
| ‘Kitty and Mack: A Love Story’ in 145th Street 88: ‘I want to lead my life the way I want to lead it without you or anybody else telling me what I need to do [...] ’ ‘I guess that’s supposed to chump me off, right?’ . |
6. to look down on, to disdain.
| Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
(US black) to humiliate someone.
| Hoops 70: ‘You can’t say this to them and you can’t say that to them because they think you’re chumping them off in front of their woman’. | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 68: I’d publicly chumped him down. | |
| You Got Nothing Coming 187: Sergeant Stanger tells me you chumped him off in front of the assistant warden. | |
| Pain Killers 129: When I found out I felt chumped off. |