Chomp

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chomp \Chomp\, v. i.
     To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq.
     U. S.] --Halliwell.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  chomp
       n : the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
           [syn: {bite}]
       v : chew noisily; "The boy chomped his sandwich" [syn: {champ}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "chomp":
     bite, bolus, champ, chaw, chew, chew the cud, chew up, chump,
     crunch, cud, gnash, gnaw, gob, grind, gum, masticate, morsel,
     mouth, mouthful, mumble, munch, nibble, nip, quid, ruminate,
     scrunch, snap, swallow
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  chomp vi. 1. To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something of which
     more was bitten off than one can. Probably related to gnashing of teeth.
     2. To bite the bag; See {bagbiter}.
  
     A hand gesture commonly accompanies this. To perform it, hold the four
     fingers together and place the thumb against their tips. Now open and
     close your hand rapidly to suggest a biting action (much like what
     Pac-Man does in the classic video game, though this pantomime seems to
     predate that). The gesture alone means `chomp chomp' (see "{Verb
     Doubling}" in the "{Jargon Construction}" section of the Prependices).
     The hand may be pointed at the object of complaint, and for real
     emphasis you can use both hands at once. Doing this to a person is
     equivalent to saying "You chomper!" If you point the gesture at
     yourself, it is a humble but humorous admission of some failure. You
     might do this if someone told you that a program you had written had
     failed in some surprising way and you felt dumb for not having
     anticipated it.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  chomp
       
           To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something of
          which more was bitten off than one can.  Probably related to
          gnashing of teeth.
       
          See {bagbiter}.
       
          A hand gesture commonly accompanies this.  To perform it, hold
          the four fingers together and place the thumb against their
          tips.  Now open and close your hand rapidly to suggest a
          biting action (much like what Pac-Man does in the classic
          video game, though this pantomime seems to predate that).  The
          gesture alone means "chomp chomp" (see {Verb Doubling}).  The
          hand may be pointed at the object of complaint, and for real
          emphasis you can use both hands at once.  Doing this to a
          person is equivalent to saying "You chomper!"  If you point
          the gesture at yourself, it is a humble but humorous admission
          of some failure.  You might do this if someone told you that a
          program you had written had failed in some surprising way and
          you felt dumb for not having anticipated it.
       
          (1996-06-01)