chomp : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: chomp	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for chomp
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chomp n the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws Synonym(s): bite, chomp v chew noisily; "The boy chomped his sandwich" [syn: chomp, champ]
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 Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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)