(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.
Chump
Definition:
(n.) A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) It might sound like chump change, but the PTC alone amounts to $1 billion a year, and industry advocates insist that wind would hit the doldrums without these subsidies.
(2) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
(3) US District Judge Frederic Block described the fine as "chump change".
(4) Oh hold on, that's suddenly gone off air to be replaced by a piece of cardboard presumably held up by some fashionably-coiffed work experience chump, reading "USA v Algeria coming up".
(5) Sports Illustrated's Peter King, whose transformation into Roger Goodell's Minister of Propaganda is nearly complete, poked his head out on Twitter to dismiss those suggesting that this was any sort of financial victory for the league, tweeting out "I love everyone calling $765m chump change".
(6) Hadley Freeman: it’s time the left faced up to antisemitism Read more Both Johnson and Donald Trump have long been mocked in their own countries as chumps, and both are now closer to leadership than anyone could have ever predicted.
(7) (Deadspin, in maybe the only amusing thing to come out of this news story, responded with a visual aid to show exactly why many experts believe this indeed was "chump change", comparatively speaking.)
(8) In February this year a civil case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission was settled on the basis of a $1.05m payout from the two, which the judge in charge termed "chump change".
(9) Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, told News International's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, on the phone on Tuesday night: "You will be regarded as a bunch of chumps, we will not lose sleep over this."
(10) BBC's demise is 'tempting prospect', jokes John Whittingdale Read more Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) This chump sums politicians up.
(11) On the periphery of all the wanton lust and questionable puns stands Evie (Antonia Thomas), who’s pretty, sweet and has a camera; the holy trinity for chumps like Dylan.
(12) Read more Amazon is paying £160m for three series of the show, which is being made by a production company set up by the three former Top Gear presenters and long-time producer Andy Wilman called W Chump & Sons.
(13) Each week in Man Up ( Wednesday, 10pm, FOX ) Olivia Lee hopes to explore the nuances of masculinity in the accelerated pace of a shifting culture by nagging one of these chumps.
(14) Last week the Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker called the culture secretary, John Whittingdale, a “chump” for making a joke that abolishing the BBC was a “tempting prospect – and he’s not the only high-profile figure to criticise the way the government is handling the institution.
(15) For major construction projects, $150m is, as the Americans say, chump change,” he said.
(16) Lineker, the former England footballer and BBC Match of the Day host, tweeted that the culture secretary was a “chump” to make such comments about the corporation.
(17) Working families file their tax forms with the nagging feeling that they’re the biggest suckers and chumps in the world,” he said.
(18) "But $17bn a year is not chump change by anyone's accounting," he said.
(19) The BBC deserves better than a chump’s charter Read more Publishing details of the pay packets for major news presenters could also leave them open to unnecessary charges when they try to question government ministers over spending cuts, for example.
(20) When I landed in my chair, on camera, and was introduced to the show's hosts – a typical trident of blonde, brunette and affable chump – it became clear that, in spite of the show's stated left-leaning inclination, the frequency they were actually broadcasting was the shrill, white noise of dumb current affairs.