chomp

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
2. To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).

Synonyms

champ

bite

chew

masticate

crunch

munch

manducate

cranch

craunch

grind

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tʃɒmp/

Etymology

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