CHOMP

bite, chomp

(noun) the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

chomp, champ

(verb) chew noisily; “The boy chomped his sandwich”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

U.S. regional variation of “champ” (verb)

Noun

chomp (plural chomps)

The act of chomping (see below)

Verb

chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped)

(intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.

(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

Source: Wiktionary


Chomp, v. i.

Definition: To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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