British people chomp their way through more than a billion bars of chocolate every year.chompchomp /tʃɒmp $ tʃɑːmp, tʃɒːmp/ verb [intransitive] informal 
She was chomping on a bread roll.chomp away a boy chomping away on a banana British people chomp their way through more than a billion bars of chocolate every year.
WORD ORIGINchomp
Origin:
1600-1700 ➔ CHAMP1VERB TABLE
chomp
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | chomp |
| he, she, it | chomps | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | chomped |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have chomped |
| he, she, it | has chomped | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had chomped |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will chomp |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have chomped |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am chomping |
| he, she, it | is chomping | |
| you, we, they | are chomping | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was chomping |
| you, we, they | were chomping | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been chomping |
| he, she, it | has been chomping | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been chomping |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be chomping |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been chomping |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Nick noisily chomped on his gum.
- Answering questions while chomping through steak is horrendous.
- First the ugly lumpy larvae, the precision closeups showing its undershot jaw as it chomped its way through its subaqueous world.
- He is a cocky creature who chomps a carrot the way W. C. Fields bit into his cigars: confidently.
- I saw my first queenie, chomping through a loch, and discovered that laughing underwater is a bad idea.
- Mars expect their customers to chomp their way through more than a billion bars this year, worth about £90m.
- Miguel watched, chomping on a plastic straw, not saying anything.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY British people chomp their way through more than a billion bars of chocolate every year.
to eat somethingchomp on British people chomp their way through more than a billion bars of chocolate every year. She was chomping on a bread roll.chomp away a boy chomping away on a banana British people chomp their way through more than a billion bars of chocolate every year.