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the sound your teeth make when patience leaves the building
means To bite or chew on something noisily and with enthusiastic force.
from A variant of 'champ,' the older word for noisily munching (as a horse 'champs at the bit'). 'Champ' itself is likely imitative — a word built from the very sound of busy jaws — and somewhere along the way the vowel rounded into the heavier, hungrier 'chomp,' a chiefly American reshaping that landed sometime in the 19th century.
- comic origin
- Popularized by Popeye's hungry pal Wimpy in the 1930s
- video game
- Mario's Chain Chomp bites everything but never escapes
- variant spelling
- Older form champ, as in champing at the bit
- florida mascot
- Gators chomp arms in unison at football games
- onomatopoeia
- The word literally imitates the noise it describes
for instance
chompers candy — spherical lollipops by tootsie roll with candy shell and chewy center, introduced 1970s
chomp gum — bubble gum brand by mondelez, known for square shape and fruit flavors