chomp vi.
1. To lose; specifically, to chew on something
of which more was bitten off than one can. Probably related to
gnashing of teeth. 2. To bite the bag; See bagbiter.
A hand gesture commonly accompanies this. To perform it, hold the
four fingers together and place the thumb against their tips. Now
open and close your hand rapidly to suggest a biting action (much
like what Pac-Man does in the classic video game, though this
pantomime seems to predate that). The gesture alone means `chomp
chomp' (see "Verb Doubling" in the "Jargon Construc
pointed at the object of complaint, and for real emphasis you can
use both hands at once. Doing this to a person is equivalent to
saying "You chomper!" If you point the gesture at yourself, it
is a humble but humorous admission of some failure. You might do
this if someone told you that a program you had written had failed
in some surprising way and you felt dumb for not having anticipated
it.
1. To lose; specifically, to chew on something
of which more was bitten off than one can. Probably related to
gnashing of teeth. 2. To bite the bag; See bagbiter.
A hand gesture commonly accompanies this. To perform it, hold the
four fingers together and place the thumb against their tips. Now
open and close your hand rapidly to suggest a biting action (much
like what Pac-Man does in the classic video game, though this
pantomime seems to predate that). The gesture alone means `chomp
chomp' (see "Verb Doubling" in the "Jargon Construc
pointed at the object of complaint, and for real emphasis you can
use both hands at once. Doing this to a person is equivalent to
saying "You chomper!" If you point the gesture at yourself, it
is a humble but humorous admission of some failure. You might do
this if someone told you that a program you had written had failed
in some surprising way and you felt dumb for not having anticipated
it.
Related:
- chomp: vi. To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something of
which more was bitten off than one can.
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computer,
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A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some
other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a
real-time on-line conversation.
It combines the immediacy of talking with all the... - chomper n.
Someone or something that is chomping;
a loser. See loser, bagbiter, chomp... - bagbiter /bag'bi:t-*r/ n.
1. Something, such as a
program or a computer,
that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy... - Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness,
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[poss. from gestures characteristic of stage
magicians] 1.
v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a ... - moby /moh'bee/
[MIT: seems to have been in use among
model railroad fans years ago.
Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from... - feature n.
1. [common] A good property or behavior (as
of a program).
Whether it was intended or not is immaterial. 2...
