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champ¹

  • /t͡ʃæmp/ US, UK

Rhymes with -æmp

noun champs

  1. abbreviation, clipping, colloquial Clipping of champion
  2. abbreviation, clipping, colloquial, in plural Clipping of championship The team failed to make it to the Champs.
  3. informal Buddy, sport, mate. (as a term of address) Whatcha doing, champ?

verb champs · champing · champed

  1. informal To act or behave like a champ; to endure. Either champ it out and post up on the cement or face-down in the sand or get out the hammock and hang it from a palm tree.

champ²

  • /t͡ʃæmp/ US, UK

Rhymes with -æmp

Where it comes from

From Middle English champen, chammen (“to bite; gnash the teeth”), perhaps originally imitative.

noun champs

  1. Ireland, uncountable, usually A dish comprising mashed potato and chopped scallions.

    Similar: poundies

verb champs · champing · champed

  1. ambitransitive To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently. They began […] irefully to champ upon the bit.

champ³

  • /ʃæmp/

Where it comes from

From champagne by shortening.

noun

  1. informal, uncountable Champagne. "They're dressed up very elegantly and it's nice they have a glass of champ, even if it's non-alcoholic," Reif says.

champ⁴

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French champ m (“field”). Doublet of campus and camp.

noun champs · champe

  1. obsolete, rare The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.
  2. obsolete, rare The field of a shield. If a man, he adds, have taken for his arms 'a low of gules in a champ of silver,'¹ […] ¹A flame (pile wavy) gules in a silver field. Thus the arms of the family of Bataille de Mandelot are, Argent three flames, per piles wavy gules, issuant from the base. Woodward, Heraldry, i. 158. Otherwise one mi

verb champs · champing · champed · champe

  1. To set (a surface) with a champ (a contrasting field or background). Three of red cloth of gold champed with (with a ground of) velvet. One of white cloth of gold champed with blue velvet. One of red champed with blue velvet.

champ⁵

Where it comes from

Blend of church + camp or back-formation from champing.

verb champs · champing · champed

  1. To camp overnight in a historic church as a novelty or part of a holiday.

Champ⁶

Where it comes from

Clipping of Champlain (“Lake Champlain”).

proper noun Champy · Champie · Champee

  1. A large aquatic creature, similar to the Loch Ness monster, which supposedly lives in Lake Champlain, located on the shared borders of the American states of Vermont and New York and the Canadian province of Quebec.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: champion, chomp, title-holder, caller, area, sphere, beacon, finest, titleholder, all-star, master, star, championing, scope, advocate, hero

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verb to bite or chew

Deutschschmatzen
Русскийча́вкать čávkatʹ, ча́вкнуть čávknutʹ

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@misc{champ_2026,
  title = {champ},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/champ},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}