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chugger

chugger

1 8.9
A person who asks people in public to give money to charity
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃʌɡər/
  • Slang
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  • As we walked through the park, we encountered a chugger asking for support for a local animal shelter.

Examples

  • A persistent chugger approached us at the festival, trying to raise funds for environmental causes.

  • I'd shut down every last one of those ass-cock chuggers, personally.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The charity hired a chugger to encourage donations from passersby in the busy shopping district.

Synonyms

charity mugger
vschugger
  • Offensive
9.1

A person who asks people for charity money in a pushy way on streets or near shops

is less aggressive but more persistent and intrusive in approach

Compounds

real chugger
  • UK
8.2

A person who keeps working hard even when things are difficult

How Persistent

chugger
  • Slang
1 8.9
solicitor
2 7.1
canvasser
2 6.8
fundraiser
87 3.1
collector
137 3.0

Surface Forms

chugger singular
chuggers plural

Morphology

chugger = charity + mugger (semi-transparent) = ch + ugger

The word is a blend of 'charity' and 'mugger'; the negative, intrusive sense is fairly inferable but the slang formation is not fully standard.

Etymology

Chugger for a charity collector probably comes from a joke mix of charity and mugger, from the phrase 'charity mugger'. So a chugger is someone who 'aggressively asks' people for donations.