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Gump

//ɡʌmp// name, noun, phrase, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of gumption abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable
  2. 2
    A foolish person. US, countable, dated, uncountable

    "[…] the young ignorant gump hearing his father or mother who perhaps may be ten times more ignorant, in point of literature than himself, extoling his learning, struts about in the full assurance, that his attainments in literature are sufficient to take him through the world, when in fact, he has scarcely any learning at all!!"

  3. 3
    A weak or soft person. countable, slang, uncountable

    "Namond Brice (Julito McCullum): Yo, where the package at man? Kenard (Thuliso Dingwall): Package up my ass, gump! Namond Brice (Julito McCullum): Yo, I'm 'bout to- Kenard (Thuliso Dingwall): You're 'bout to! Go on, walk, gump-ass motherfucker!"

Phrase
  1. 1
    Acronym of gas (fuel), undercarriage (landing gear), mixture (fuel mixture), prop (propeller setting); a mnemonic for landing an airplane; particularly propeller-propelled carburated powered one with a retractable landing gear. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

Etymology

Perhaps related to gumption. The term long pre-dates the slow-witted character from the 1994 film Forrest Gump.

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