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Date: 1600-1700
Origin: CHAMP1

chomp

 verb
     
chomp [intransitive] informal
to 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.
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