chomp

Plural: chomps

Noun

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

Verb

Verb Forms: chomped, chomping, chomps

• To bite or chew noisily and eagerly.
• chew noisily
  • "The boy chomped his sandwich"
• To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
• To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

Examples

• After a great play, he could almost hear his opponent chomp on their own words in frustration.
• An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.
• The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.

Synonyms

bite, champ, hextet

Anagrams of chomp