chomp

chomp

English

Alternative forms

• chump (dated)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tʃɒmp/
• (US) enPR: chŏmp, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔmp/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: chomp
• Rhymes: -ɒmp

Noun

chomp (plural chomps)

1. The act of chomping (see below)
2. (computing, rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits, which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.[1]

   Synonym: hextet

   An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.

Verb

chomp (third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple 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).

   Coordinate term: chop

Derived terms

• chompy

Derived terms

• chomp at the bit
• chomp down on
• cigar-chomping

 

Translations

to bite or munch loudly or heavily

Bulgarian: дъвча шумно (dǎvča šumno) Czech: chroupat impf, chroustat impf Danish: gnaske German: schmatzen (de) Hungarian: csámcsog (hu) Italian: masticare in modo rumoroso Maori: kome, komi Russian: ча́вкать (ru) impf (čávkatʹ), ча́вкнуть (ru) pf (čávknutʹ)

References

1. “Bit Nibble Byte Chomp – a call to action”, in trefor.net‎, 2011-03-22: “The Timico engineering team has started to use the word “chomp” to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6.”