(v. t.) To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard.
(v. t.) To bite into small pieces; to crunch.
(v. i.) To bite or chew impatiently.
(n.) Alt. of Champe
Example Sentences:
(1) That we're about to embark on such a spectacle is a gift, considering that the defending Stanley Cup champs from Chicago looked destined for the golf course just days ago.
(2) Macron and Trump will attend the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Élysée on Friday morning, before the Trumps return to Washington.
(3) Le champ solaire d’une valeur de 23,7 millions de dollars était opérationnel à peine un an après la signature du contrat, n’en déplaise aux sceptiques qui remettaient en cause la capacité des Africains à mener à bien un projet rapidement.
(4) The race itself will feature 120 cyclists starting at 12.45pm and covering 13 laps of the Tour's finish circuit up and down the Champs Elysées, turning at Place de la Concorde and at the Arc de Triomphe, with a total distance of 90 kilometres.
(5) James Anstead, Nicolas Champ and Julie Zhuang, retail analysts at Barclays The profit guidance reflects the ongoing difficult trading conditions and the slower-than-expected response to recent initiatives.
(6) It’s an electro club near the Champs-Elysées and the sound system is great.
(7) BBQ Champ, which will be hosted by Adam Richman, the American presenter of cult TV hit Man V Food, will feature Bake Off-style challenges but swaps pastries and cupcakes for burgers and kebabs.
(8) He wants to style himself as patron of the most ambitious urban overhaul since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the Champs Elysée.
(9) But what made The Champ the greatest – what truly separated him from everyone else – is that everyone else would tell you pretty much the same thing.
(10) Prosecutors said the men were members of the Blackstones street gang who were upset after an unreported shooting that took place earlier in the day in which Champ suffered a graze wound.
(11) Motorsport champs and classical conductors – with no fewer than four performing during the current Proms season – and Moomintrolls.
(12) I wouldn't deny him a place at the top table but there is, I believe, something wrong about elevating him above all the others as "the champ".
(13) Analysis of these data and comparison with structural results from the preceding paper (Matthews, D.A., Bolin, J.T., Burridge, J.M., Filman, D.J., Volz, K.W., Kaufman, B. T., Beddell, C.R., Champness, J.N., Stammers, D.K., and Kraut, J.
(14) The Ravens became the 15th Super Bowl champ that failed to reach the playoffs the following season, and the sixth in the last 12 years.
(15) Shop-owners said luxury fashion boutiques near the Champs Elysées were unlikely to call the police to detain female tourists in niqabs from the Gulf.
(16) The lack of sound on the Champs Elysées was striking.
(17) Since leaving Spin City, Fox has appeared in several TV shows to great acclaim, including his friend Denis Leary's show Rescue Me (for which he won an Emmy), The Good Wife, Boston Legal, Scrubs and, most amusingly, as himself on Curb Your Enthusiasm, in which Larry David accuses him of exaggerating his Parkinson's symptoms to annoy him ("I thought I was the sickest guy on this block but you're the new champ," Fox replies.)
(18) "Nothing to celebrate on the Champs Elysees," snorts Paul Griffin.
(19) For the bigger sides they take place at unique landmarks: The Colosseum, Trafalgar Square, Brandenburg Gate, Champs-Élysées and so on.” With one very noticeable exception, however.
(20) In the summer of 2009, I found myself invited to a small party in an old bourgeois apartment with breathtaking views of the Champ-de-Mars and Eiffel Tower.
Chomp
Definition:
(v. i.) To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(2) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
(3) Citizens of a militaristic empire are inexorably trained to adopt the mentality of their armies: just listen to Good Progressive Obama defenders swagger around like they're decorated, cigar-chomping combat veterans spouting phrases like "war is hell" and "collateral damage" to justify all of this.
(4) ) I would rather drink Bud (another St Louis product) than chomp on antacids.... looks like I need to hit the fridge for suds St Louis, purveyor of beer, ribs and Rolaids.
(5) Acute clinical signs were hypersalivation, mouth chomping, diarrhea, muscle fasciculations, tremors, hyperexcitability, convulsions, coma and death.
(6) In the film he was a proper cigar-chomping, braces, growling, feet-on-the-desk kind of editor.
(7) Brunel might have chomped on several cigars before getting the point, and yet I think he would have loved it.
(8) Snus is unlike either snuff, which is sniffed, or chewing tobacco, which releases nicotine only when chomped on.
(9) Led by larger-than-life characters such as the cigar-chomping Cayne and amateur magician Alan "Ace" Greenberg, Bear has long cultivated an image as a maverick firm with a particularly risk-driven style.
(10) When Louis returns later in the programme, Caspar has chomped up Nancy's leg and been despatched to doggy Broadmoor in the sky.
(11) As we prepare lunch, I find myself chomping away at a celery stick.
(12) Budding author #rioferdinand may soon be spending more time on his novels as it emerges he could be on his way out of Queens Park Rangers six months after joining the west London club, news that will no doubt be greeted with glee by the literary world, where they are chomping at the bit to see what this new Franzen, this heir to Mantel, comes up with next.
(13) Surely there are women leaving both leadership programmes chomping at the bit and ready to lead in any and all sectors?
(14) His chomp on Branislav Ivanovic’s forearm while playing for Liverpool against Chelsea at Anfield in April 2013 earned him a 10-game suspension.
(15) The ONS said that in 2000 the UK chomped and burned its way through 188m tonnes of crops, fish and wood, compared with 172.5m in 2013, the last year for which figures are available.
(16) Are you really the caricature of the cigar-chomping, Foghorn Leghorn of Australian politics , where you’re saying that poor people don’t drive cars?” Shorten said in Perth.
(17) Polish firm Playsoft has beaten its rivals to the punch – or, indeed, the chomp – by developing a mobile game called Suarez Soccer Bite.
(18) But there is no such obvious defence for chomping down on an opponent’s shoulder.
(19) Yang Guang, the male of the pair currently engaging the gawping hordes, was sitting underneath his tree chomping on bamboo shoots.
(20) Why, there are loyal viewers clamouring right now for another episode in which detective sergeant Ronnie Brooks (Bradley Walsh) stands over a corpse, chomping on a pulled pork baguette with apple sauce, boo-hooing about his divorce, while hunky Lee Adama from Battlestar Galactica (Jamie Bamber playing detective Matt Devlin) questions all the suspects in scenes lasting no more than 46 seconds, in dialogue reminiscent of the kids' board game Guess Who?