Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Chomp \Chomp\, v. i.
To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq.
U. S.] --Halliwell.
Source : WordNet®
chomp
n : the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
[syn: {bite}]
v : chew noisily; "The boy chomped his sandwich" [syn: {champ}]
Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
chomp
To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something of
which more was bitten off than one can. Probably related to
gnashing of teeth.
See {bagbiter}.
A hand gesture commonly accompanies this. To perform it, hold
the four fingers together and place the thumb against their
tips. Now open and close your hand rapidly to suggest a
biting action (much like what Pac-Man does in the classic
video game, though this pantomime seems to predate that). The
gesture alone means "chomp chomp" (see {Verb Doubling}). The
hand may be pointed at the object of complaint, and for real
emphasis you can use both hands at once. Doing this to a
person is equivalent to saying "You chomper!" If you point
the gesture at yourself, it is a humble but humorous admission
of some failure. You might do this if someone told you that a
program you had written had failed in some surprising way and
you felt dumb for not having anticipated it.
(1996-06-01)