Difference between Chump and Mug

What is the difference between Chump and Mug?

Chump as a noun is the opposite of a champ; a loser while Mug as a noun is a large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.

Chump

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the opposite of a champ; a loser the smaller of two bullies an unintelligent person; a blockhead a gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; the target of a scam someone lacking good sense - especially considered so for being scrupulous or unselfish

Mug

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.The face, often used deprecatingly.A gullible or easily-cheated person.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To assault for the purpose of robbery.To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose for photographs in an exaggerated or affected manner.

Example sentence: There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.

We hope you now know whether to use Chump or Mug in your sentence.

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