From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishchompchomp /tʃɒmp $ tʃɑːmp, tʃɒːmp/ verb [intransitive] informal BITEto eat somethingchomp on She was chomping on a bread roll.chomp away a boy chomping away on a banana British people chomp their way through more than a billion bars of chocolate every year.→ See Verb table
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chomp• He is a cocky creature who chomps a carrot the way W. C. Fields bit into his cigars: confidently.• First the ugly lumpy larvae, the precision closeups showing its undershot jaw as it chomped its way through its subaqueous world.• Miguel watched, chomping on a plastic straw, not saying anything.• Nick noisily chomped on his gum.• Mars expect their customers to chomp their way through more than a billion bars this year, worth about £90m.• I saw my first queenie, chomping through a loch, and discovered that laughing underwater is a bad idea.• Answering questions while chomping through steak is horrendous.chomp their way through• Mars expect their customers to chomp their way through more than a billion bars this year, worth about £90m.Origin chomp (1600-1700) → CHAMP1 