An acoustic guitar with a naturally loud booming sound to it without the need to strum it with force.
Wow! You know I'm a Martin lover, but this Gibson is a chugger! This baby would be heard over any banjo in a Bluegrass band!
by talk2me-JCH2 August 28, 2022
Licensed charity muggers with coloured tabards and clipboards laying in wait on every high street in the land to pounce on you and relieve you of your dosh by pressing all your guilt buttons and making you sign up to their cause.
Word first appeared in print in London newspaper METRO on 26 June 2002 in its creator Keith Barker-Main's SAY WHAT (New Words Around Town) column.
Word first appeared in print in London newspaper METRO on 26 June 2002 in its creator Keith Barker-Main's SAY WHAT (New Words Around Town) column.
by keith barker-main September 19, 2006
Charity muggers. The aggressive people who hang out on city street footpaths demanding money for charities and won't take no for an answer.
I was walking down the main street minding my own business when I was accosted by a pair of aggressive charity collectors. Just about had to run away to get away from the chuggers.
by BundyGil February 24, 2012
Those charity collectors that stand on street corners pratically mugging you to give donations, hence Chuggers instead of Muggers
That fluffy fucking bear holding the tin cup just chugged me for a ten dollar donation, fucking chuggers!
by Michael Hickey July 05, 2006
British Slang: Those often irritating 'charity' representatives who approach you on the streets, encouraging you to provide credit card details for making monthly donations towards certain charities.
The 'chuggers' are trying to get you to quickly swallow the whole line they're pitching - hence 'Chugger.' Typically, the chuggers receive half of everything you agree to give and the company takes another 40 percent, leaving only ten percent for the real charity.
The 'chuggers' are trying to get you to quickly swallow the whole line they're pitching - hence 'Chugger.' Typically, the chuggers receive half of everything you agree to give and the company takes another 40 percent, leaving only ten percent for the real charity.
I've just been approached by more chuggers on the street corner. Today they're chugging for Save The Children!
by Fr. Bill Haymaker November 04, 2007
Paid "charity" street worker (read: student) who has been trained to believe that they are carrying out a worthy task, improving peoples' lives by conning Joe Public out of their money for this week's Good Cause. Usually an agency worker where the agency takes a hefty cut of the hourly rate that the charity in question has paid for, whilst at the same time increasing profits by selling on details of those foolish enough to actually stop and sign up to said Good Cause.
by Bob April 04, 2005
Composite of 'chrity' and 'mugger'. These people will stop you in the street and talk to you as if they are your oldest and best friend. All of which is a false cover for their real intention. Working on commission, they need people to donate to the charities which they 'represent' and to do this they will guilt trip you into handing over all your details.
One effective way of giving to the charity, yet not being conned into surrendering your card details and other sensitive information is to request the address and contact details of the charities head office and offer to make a direct payment. This will annoy the chugger as it cuts them out of the equation but you will have the upper hand. Otherwise try to think of a quirky reply to their begging for which they will have no answer or look straight through them.
One effective way of giving to the charity, yet not being conned into surrendering your card details and other sensitive information is to request the address and contact details of the charities head office and offer to make a direct payment. This will annoy the chugger as it cuts them out of the equation but you will have the upper hand. Otherwise try to think of a quirky reply to their begging for which they will have no answer or look straight through them.
Chugger: Do you like children?
Me: Yes, but I couldn't eat a whole one.
Chugger: (silence and look of shock)
Me: Yes, but I couldn't eat a whole one.
Chugger: (silence and look of shock)
by Jim Birtwisle January 17, 2008