U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).
(computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.
Meanings
The act of chomping (see below)
(rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps.
The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6. 2011 March 22, Trefor Davies, “Bit Nibble Byte Chomp – a call to action”, in trefor.net:
U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”).
(computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.
Meanings
(ambitransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
Before welcoming any new students to school, make sure they DEFINITELY ARE STUDENTS and not DANGEROUS ANIMALS IN DISGUISE trying to sneak into your school TO CHOMP EVERYONE. 2016, David O’Doherty, “Danger at School”, in Danger Really Is Everywhere: School of Danger (Danger Is Everywhere; 3), London: Puffin Books, →ISBN, page 65:
The dog chomped on the treat and swallowed it in one gulp.
(transitive) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
sv smälla ihop (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · mi komi (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · cs chroupat (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · hu csámcsog (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · mi kome (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · da gnaske (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · cs chroustat (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · ru ча́вкать (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · ru ча́вкнуть (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · bg дъвча шумно (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · sv hugga (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · it masticare in modo rumoroso (to bite or munch loudly or heavily) · de schmatzen (to bite or munch loudly or heavily)