chomp

Definition

The act of chomping (see below)

Etymology

U.S. regional variation of champ (verb), from Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash”). (computing storage unit): An allusion to byte, which sounds like bite.

Example Sentences

• "An IPv6 address is represented as eight hexadecimal chomps."
• "The Timico engineering team has started to use the word chomp to represent two bytes or the 4 Hex character block in IPv6."