chomp
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++chomp /tʃɒmp $ tʃɑːmp, tʃɒːmp/ verb [intransitive] informal BITEto eat something 吃chomp on She was chomping on a bread roll. 她大嚼着面包卷。chomp away a boy chomping away on a banana 正啃着一根香蕉的男孩 British people chomp their way through more than a billion bars of chocolate every year. 英国人每年吃掉十亿多条巧克力。→ 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) → CHAMP1chomp verbChinese
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chomp /tʃɒmp $ tʃɑːmp, tʃɒːmp/
verb [intransitive] informalto eat something
chomp 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.
chomp /tʃɒmp $ tʃɑːmp, tʃɒːmp/
verb [intransitive] informalto eat somethingchomp on
chomp away