chump
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Awkwafina voices a street pigeon named Chump, Keegan-Michael Key is a Jamaican parrot named Delroy and Carol Kane is a heron named Erin.
From New York Times • May 3, 2024
"We've paid hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes since 2012. How much have you paid? Chump change for sure. Enjoy!"
From Salon • Aug. 21, 2021
The Sun on Sunday's headline - playing on the BBC's initials - reads simply "Bye Bye Chump".
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2012
Hand-wringing over the Christian content of popular entertainment conjures an image of Ali privately thinking of himself as "The Chump".
From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2010
Chump, chump, an end lump of wood: a blockhead: the head.—Off his chump—out of his mind.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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