Pal beginning to play the fool?

Usage examples of chump.

I feel a most frightful chump now, yes, but who can say whether that will not pass off when I get into a mob of other people in fancy dress.

Both of them, hand in hand, or he alone, the chump, the boob, the easy mark who got this sort of thing wished on him!

That figuring the other guy for a chump is the worst thing you can do.

You get the chump to trust her, and if he falls in love with her, so much the better.

I was nothing more than a prize chump being set up for the big finale by a couple of pros, I still wanted to believe it.

You vatch dem play, maybe you see vun dat chumps backvard, or vun dat likes to roll.

After vhile, you haff cat dat can make big backvard chumps, or roll like barrel.

The chumps thought they ought to be getting ten attractions in the Ten-in-One because I told them so on the bally.

The chumps do go for Walla-Walla, provided the carnival lot is right alongside.

In the cook car, Steve was holding an undertoned conversation with Margo while the other performers busied themselves by gesturing through the windows at the local chumps who were watching the gilly train depart.

I was busy in a different part of the compound with Gonzo, Mimsy, Muffin, and Chump, but I glanced over occasionally to see what was going on.

But how does this Waldhorn chump in there know anything about Charlie Dorenwald?

Sometimes, later on, when he had finished his chump chop and she had finished her bowl of porridge or village-idiot cereal, he would go on reading Man of his Words: The Life and Times of Ingram Bywater and she would go on reading Budgeting for Belgium, as the tap dripped and the strip-light fizzed like a fat flyand they would yawn together.

If the suit-filing mothers were to be believed, Sol had three grown sons and three grown daughtersand the complainants were bought off with chump change settlementsweird for a man so given to charity for appearance's sake.

And so I'm bound to say I looked on this chump Bassington-Bassington, when he arrived, more or less as a Dove of Peace, and was all for him.