Definition of "chomp"

chomp

/tʃɒmp/

noun
plural chomps
1. The act of chomping (see below)
2. (computing, rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits, which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
verb
third-person singular simple present chomps, present participle chomping, simple past and past participle chomped
1. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
2. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).