chomp

5 definitions found

chomp - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

chomp - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  chomp
      n 1: the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
           [syn: bite, chomp]
      v 1: chew noisily; "The boy chomped his sandwich" [syn: chomp,
           champ]

chomp - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  chomp
  
     <jargon> To fail.
  
     (1996-06-01)
  

chomp - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.
  

chomp - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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