chomp
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /tʃɒmp/
  • (America) enPR: chŏmp, IPA: /t͡ʃɔmp/
Noun

chomp (plural chomps)

  1. The act of chomping (see below)
Verb

chomp (chomps, present participle chomping; past and past participle chomped)

  1. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
    The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.
  2. (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).
Related terms Translations
  • German: schmatzen
  • Italian: masticare in modo rumoroso
  • Russian: ча́вкать



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