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–verb (used with object)

1.	to bite upon or grind, esp. impatiently: The horses champed the oats.

2.	to crush with the teeth and chew vigorously or noisily; munch.

3.	to mash; crush.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to make vigorous chewing or biting movements with the jaws and teeth.

–noun

5.	the act of champing.

—Idiom

6.	champ at the bit, to betray impatience, as to begin some action.

Also, chomp.

[Origin: 1520–30; perh. akin to chap¹; see chop¹

]

—Related forms

champer, noun

champy, adjective

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–noun Informal.

a champion.

[Origin: by shortening

]

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champ¹ Audio Help   (chāmp) Pronunciation Key
v.   champed, champ·ing, champs

v.   tr.
To bite or chew upon noisily. See Synonyms at bite.

v.   intr.
To work the jaws and teeth vigorously.

[Probably imitative.]

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champ² Audio Help (chāmp) Pronunciation Key
n. Informal
A champion.

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champ (n.)

1868, Amer.Eng. abbreviation of champion (q.v.).

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champ (v.)

1530, probably echoic. Earlier also cham.

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champ
noun
1.	someone who has won first place in a competition [syn: champion]
verb
1.	chafe at the bit, like horses
2.	chew noisily; "The boy chomped his sandwich" [syn: chomp]

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champ

In addition to the idiom beginning with champ, also see like a champ.

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champ [tʃӕmp] verb

(especially of horses) to chew noisily

Arabic:	يَلوكُ
Chinese (Simplified):	（马等）大声嚼
Chinese (Traditional):	(馬等)大聲嚼
Czech:	chroupat
Danish:	smaske; gumle
Dutch:	hoorbaar kauwen
Estonian:	krõmpsutama
Finnish:	rouskuttaa
French:	mâchonner
German:	geräuschvoll kauen, schmatzen
Greek:	μασουλώ με θόρυβο
Hungarian:	ropogtat
Icelandic:	bryðja
Indonesian:	mengunyah
Italian:	masticare rumorosamente*

Japanese:	むしゃむしゃかむ
Korean:	(말이) 소리내어 씹다
Latvian:	čāpstināt; šmakstināt
Lithuanian:	kramtyti, šlamšti
Norwegian:	smaske, gumle, knaske
Polish:	żuć
Portuguese (Brazil):	mascar
Portuguese (Portugal):	mastigar
Romanian:	a rumega
Russian:	чавкать; грызть удила
Slovak:	žuť
Slovenian:	prežvekovati
Spanish:	mascar, masticar
Swedish:	tugga, bita
Turkish:	gürültüyle çiğnemek

See also: champ at the bit

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Champ, MO (village, FIPS 13078) Location: 38.74373 N, 90.44938 W
Population (1990): 11 (4 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Champ

Camp\, n. [F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus plant, field; akin to Gr. ? garden. Cf. Campaing, Champ, n.]

1. The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. --Shzk.

2. A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.

Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. --W. Irving.

3. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

4. The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.

The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight. --Macaulay.

5. (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.]

6. [Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See champion.] An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. --Halliwell.

Camp bedstead, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation.

camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling.

Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet.

Camp fever, typhus fever.

Camp follower, a civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.

Camp meeting, a religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It usually last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.

Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back.

Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. --Farrow.

To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp.

To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

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Champ\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Champed; p. pr. & vb. n. Champing.] [Prob, of Scand. orgin; cf. dial. Sw. k["a]msa 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.

Foamed and champed the golden bit. --Dryden.

2. To bite into small pieces; to crunch. --Steele.

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Champ

Champ\, v. i. To bite or chew impatiently.

They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit. --Hooker.

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Champ

Champ\, Champe \Champe\, n. [F. champ, L. campus field.] (Arch.) The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.

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Champ

Jam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Jamming.] [Either fr. jamb, as if squeezed between jambs, or more likely from the same source as champ See Champ.]

1. To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.

The . . . jammed in between two rocks. --De Foe.

2. To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door. [Colloq.]

3. (Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback. --W. C. Russell.

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Champ

Champ`le*v['e]"\, a. [F., p. p. of champlever to engrave. See 3d Champ, Camp, Lever a bar.] (Art) Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. -- n. A piece of champlev['e] enamel; also, the process or art of making such enamel work; champlev['e] work.

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