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off one's chump

off one's chump prepositional phrase: crazy, insane.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (Australia, UK, colloquial) Crazy, insane.
    • “Ay, sure ’ave ur; and wot the devil I be to do agin that there Snooks, as ’ll lie through a brick wall, I beant able to say. I be pooty nigh off my chump wot wi’ one thing and another.”1883, Richard Harris, The Humourous^([sic]) Story of Farmer Bumpkin′s Lawsuit, Gutenberg eBook #30551
    • ‘ […] I′m not off my chump, no more than you are, and I haven't smelt spirits since last Christmas.’1888, Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne), A Sydney-Side Saxon, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0607291

Origin of off one's chump

See chump (“the head”), and compare off one's head.

Questions about off one's chump

What does off one's chump mean?
Off one's chump means crazy, insane.
What part of speech is off one's chump?
Off one's chump is a prepositional phrase.

Words near off one's chump in the dictionary

  1. off menu
  2. off message
  3. off of
  4. off one's block
  5. off one's box
  6. off one's chump
  7. off one's dot
  8. off one's face
  9. off one's feed
  10. off one's game
  11. off one's guard

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