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What is a chugger?
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.
Chugger: Do you like children?
Me: Yes, but I couldn't eat a whole one.
Chugger: (silence and look of shock)
a chugger - video
A chugger - what is it?
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.
If you really want to support a charity, do it through their website, not a chugger.
What does "a chugger" mean?
CROIKEY MATE I NEED TO CATCH THE CHUGGER TO QUEENS
A chugger - what does it mean?
Charity Mugger, Chugger
The person standing on the street corner with a sign or a damn annoying bell, and a sad story to tell. These people are unavoidable blocking paths and doorways or walking up to the open window of your car on a hot summer day. They make you feel like a bad person because there are starving children, shitty schools, shitty parents, and all these horrible things in the world. And you just ate a cheeseburger and bought your fourth cell phone this year.
"Don't go through the circle today. Those fucking chuggers are there......again"
A chugger - meaning
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!
A chugger - definition
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!
A chugger - slang
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.
A chugger
Charity muggers. People employed by charity organisations to solicit passerbys for donations. Especially relevant to the more aggressive collectors.
I could barely get passed the chuggers at the mall.
A chugger
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
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!