The difference between Chump and Dope
When used as nouns, chump means an incompetent person, a blockhead, whereas dope means any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
Dope is also verb with the meaning: to affect with drugs.
Dope is also adjective with the meaning: amazing.
check bellow for the other definitions of Chump and Dope
-
Chump as a noun (colloquial, pejorative):
An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
Examples:
"That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."
-
Chump as a noun:
A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
Examples:
"It shouldn't be hard to put one over on ''that'' chump."
-
Chump as a noun:
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
-
Chump as a verb:
-
Dope as a noun (uncountable):
Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
-
Dope as a noun (uncountable):
An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
-
Dope as a noun (uncountable, aeronautics):
Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
-
Dope as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin.
-
Dope as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports.
Examples:
"What's the latest dope on the stock market?"
-
Dope as a noun (uncountable, fireams):
Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
-
Dope as a noun (countable, slang):
A stupid person.
-
Dope as a noun (US, Ohio):
dessert topping
-
Dope as a verb (transitive, slang):
To affect with drugs.
-
Dope as a verb (transitive):
To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
-
Dope as a verb (transitive, electronics):
To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
-
Dope as a verb (slang):
To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
-
Dope as a verb (slang, transitive, dated):
To judge or guess; to predict the result of.
-
Dope as an adjective (slang):
Amazing.
Examples:
"That party was dope!"