chomp

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/tʃɒmp/(UK)
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/tʃɒmp/(UK) · /t͡ʃɑmp/(US)

Definition of chomp

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The act of chomping (see below)
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noun

  1. The act of chomping (see below)
  2. (rare)A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
    “An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.”
    “The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6.”

verb

  1. (intransitive)To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
    “The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.”
    “Before welcoming any new students to school, make sure they DEFINITELY ARE STUDENTS and not DANGEROUS ANIMALS IN DISGUISE trying to sneak into your school TO CHOMP EVERYONE.”
  2. (transitive)To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

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Etymology

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”). (computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.

Hooks

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