chump change

1. 1.

   a trifling sum of money

   Synonymssmall changechickenfeed

   Broadercash

Questions about chump change

What does chump change mean?

chump change means "a trifling sum of money".

What is another word for chump change?

Close synonyms include small change, chickenfeed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chump change a common word?

chump change is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.