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Pos: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun champ has 1 senses

   champ(n = noun.person) champion, title-holder - someone who has won first place in a competition;
is a kind of challenger, competition, competitor, contender, rival
has particulars: record-breaker, record-holder


Verb champ has 2 senses

1.  champ(v = verb.consumption) - chafe at the bit, like horses;
is one way to
chew, jaw, manducate, masticate
Sample sentences: Something ----s

2.  champ(v = verb.consumption) chomp - chew noisily; "The boy chomped his sandwich"
is one way to chew, jaw, manducate, masticate
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

champ, v. t. [Prob, of Scand. orgin; cf. dial. Sw. kämsa to chew with difficulty, champ; but cf. also OF. champier, champeyer, champoyer, to graze in fields, fr. F. champ field, fr. L. campus. Cf. Camp.].

1.  To bite with repeated action of the teeth so as to be heard. [1913 Webster]
"Foamed and champed the golden bit." [1913 Webster]

2.  To bite into small pieces; to crunch. Steele. [1913 Webster]


champ, v. i.

   To bite or chew impatiently. [1913 Webster]
"They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit." [1913 Webster]


champ, n. [F. champ, L. campus field.].

   The field or ground on which carving appears in relief. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

champ, v. & n.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. munch or chew noisily.
2 tr. (of a horse etc.) work (the bit) noisily between the teeth.
3 intr. fret with impatience (is champing to be away).
--n. a chewing noise or motion.

Idiom:
champ at the bit be restlessly impatient.

champ, n. sl. a champion.

Etymology:
abbr.


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Food

VB  eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take, gulp, bolt, snap, fall to, despatch, dispatch, discuss, take down, get down, gulp down, lay in, tuck in, lick, pick, peck, gormandize, bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble, live on, feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon, browse, graze, crop, regale, carouse, eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet, break bread, break one's fast, breakfast, lunch, dine, take tea, sup, drink in, drink up, drink one's fill, quaff, sip, sup, suck, suck up, lap, swig, swill, chugalug, tipple, empty one's glass, drain the cup, toss off, toss one's glass, wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle, purvey.