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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chomp \Chomp\, v. i. To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] --Halliwell. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: chomp n : the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws [syn: {bite}] v : chew noisily [syn: {champ}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: chomp vi 1. To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something of which more was bitten off than one can. Probably related to gnashing of teeth. 2. To bite the bag; 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}" in the "{Jargon Construction}" section of the Prependices). 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 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: chompTo {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)
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