Chomp

//t͡ʃɑmp// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of chomping (see below)
  2. 2
    the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws wordnet
  3. 3
    A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values. rare

    "An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps."

Verb
  1. 1
    To bite or chew loudly or heavily. intransitive

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

  2. 2
    chew noisily or vigorously wordnet
  3. 3
    To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character). transitive

Synonyms

All synonyms
bitebiteboluschampchampchaw

Example

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"An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps."

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.

Related phrases

chomp at the bitchomp down oncigar-chompingchomp at bit

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