A fork of Rural Dictionary
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.
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.
I've just been approached by more chuggers on the street corner. Today they're chugging for Save The Children!
Care Bears on acid. They are dangerous, especially when you touch their bellies.
We were out camping one time, and there was a sign that read "Keep away from the Chuggers." "Have you ever seen a bear on acid? No, But i've seen a Care Bear on acid... So I guess...exacccctly....a Chugger"
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!
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.
I was accosted in the street by no less than eight chuggers yesterday