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chump-block

chump-block is the alternative spelling of chump block.

Meaning of chump block

Verb

chump block (third-person singular simple present chump blocks, present participle chump blocking, simple past and past participle chump blocked)

  1. (intransitive, collectible card games) To block an attack from a powerful attacker with a weak defender that will neither survive the attack nor destroy the attacker.
    • This is a bad Pacifism, as it allows the creature to stay around and at least chump block for a turn.1998 September 17, Mark Justice with Beth Moursund, Magic: The Gathering Advanced Strategy Guide: The Color-Illustrated Guide to Expert Magic, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 49

Forms of chump-block

third-person singular presentchump-blocks
present participlechump-blocking
past participlechump-blocked
pastchump-blocked

Questions about chump-block

What is chump-block the alternative spelling of?
Chump-block is the alternative spelling of chump block.

Words near chump-block in the dictionary

  1. chump blocks
  2. chump change
  3. chump chop
  4. chump chops
  5. chump off
  6. chump-block
  7. chump-blocked
  8. chump-blocking
  9. chump-blocks
  10. chump-change
  11. chumpaka

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chump-block (page history and authors); chump block (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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