chomp

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。

Examples from the Corpus

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) → CHAMP1

Chinese

Corpus

BNC: 26250 COCA: 18586

chomp

To eat in a particular way: bite, bolt, cannibalize...