Meaning

2 senses
  1. (ambitransitive)To bite or chew loudly or heavily.

    The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.

    schmatzen

    ча́вкатьčávkatʹ, ча́вкнутьčávknutʹ

    chew noisily or vigorously

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

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom is chomping at the bit to do that.

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  2. An American alligator chomps a snowy egret at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida.

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  3. Madison Keesler clears furniture and pets from the living room, while Benjamin Freemantle chomps on a banana topped with peanut butter.

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  4. She was sitting on the sea wall, happily chomping away at her Cornish pasty, when he came sidling up to her.

    deSie saß auf der Ufermauer und mampfte gerade genüsslich ihre „Cornish pasty“, da schlich er sich an sie heran.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to bite or munch loudly or heavily:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to bite or munch loudly or heavily:

Origin

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; g

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).

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Forms

chomps, chomping, chomped, chomped
Base formchomp · to chomp
3rd person singularchomps
Present participlechomping
Past simplechomped
Past participlechomped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theychomp
he, she, itchomps

Past simpleLesson

all personschomped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave chomped
he, she, ithas chomped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill chomp

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • chew noisily or vigorously:champ

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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