As public spending goes, it’s chump change. 394 Coleman knew he needed money to finance his killing spree, and he was only making chump change gigging on Central Avenue.Ģ001 Guardian 7 Feb. Times 25 May 74 The gang has stagnated… The members have become ‘surplus people’, hanging around arching for ‘chump change’.ġ988 J. 285 Western whores were lazy and satisfied with making ‘*chump change’.ġ977 N.Y. in African-American usage) a small or negligible sum of money small change.ġ967 ‘ICEBERG SLIM’ Pimp xx. James Steward at Penn State says he knew it growing up in Cleveland in the late Forties and early Fifties.Ĭhump change n. Vandersee Dictionaries 3: Chump change.Houston Baker told me he remembered the term in Louisville as far back as the 1950s or 1960s. 8): If I had five million and chump change, I’d do it myself.ġ993 C. 23) 63: He wasn’t going to be like his daddy, slaving for chump change.ġ992 Daybreak Sunday (CNN-TV)(Mar. Johnson What’s Happenin’ 63: Who else out there wants to give me some chump change?ġ987 Newsweek (Mar. Antigone was after bigger game.ġ974 Blount 3 Bricks Shy 10: And Joe Greene once referred to $50 as “chump change.”ġ978 B. Red 62: To be a man was easy chump change.
a small amount of money CHICKENFEED (hence) a triviality.ġ967 Beck Pimp 285 : Western whores were lazy and satisfied with making “chump change.”ġ968-70 Campus Slang III & IV 26: My chump change is running low.ġ970 Cain Blueschild Baby 32: The toughs stand at the entrances.jingling chump change in their pockets.ġ970 Winick & Kinsie Lively Commerce 120: Some pimps even have part-time “legitimate” jobs and receive only “chump change” or pocket money from their prostitutes.ġ873 I. (Historical Dictionary of American Slang)Ĭhump change n. : a relatively small or insignificant amount of money If you sell one of those cars, your commission will be chump change. (US, Canada, idiomatic, slang) An amount of remuneration, reward, or other monetary recompense considered to be insultingly small. He spent $300,000 for his new car, but that’s chump change for a billionaire like him.Ģ. (US, Canada, idiomatic, slang) A sum of money considered to be insignificant. The saying originated in African American English.ġ. ” Chump change: a small amount of money” was printed in the book Black Slang: A Dictionary of Afro-American Talk (1971) edited by Clarence Major. "Chump change” is a small and/or insignificant mount of money-the money a “chump” makes, not a “champ.” “Chump change” was printed in the Philadelphia (PA) Tribune on May 1, 1965.
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