champ

See champion

• (US, UK, General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

champ (plural champs)

1. Clipping of champion.
2. (informal) buddy, sport, mate (as a term of address)

   Whatcha doing, champ?

• octochamp

Uncertain, probably imitative

champ (etymology 2, noun)

• (US, UK, General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

champ (usually uncountable, plural champs)

1. (Ireland) a meal of mashed potatoes and scallions

champ (third-person singular simple present champs, present participle champing, simple past and past participle champed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
   • Hooker

     They began […] irefully to champ upon the bit.

   • Dryden

     Foamed and champed the golden bit.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XII, p. 200,

     He was mad, reeling about and gesticulating at the rushing train, and champing and gurgling like a lunatic.

   • 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 13, page 166, ¶ 18

     The man beside him placed a cigar between Mallow’s teeth and lit it. He champed on one of his own and said, “You must be overworked. Maybe you need a long rest.”

• champ at the bit
• chomp

From champagne by shortening.

• IPA^(key): /ʃæmp/

champ (uncountable)

1. (informal) champagne
   • 1990, Ann Heller, "Prom Nights Often Offer Students Primer On Fine Dining", Dayton Daily News, 6 April 1990:

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

   • 2009, The Lonely Island (featuring T-Pain), "I'm on a Boat", Incredibad:

     We're drinkin' Santana champ, 'cause it's so crisp

   • 2010, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Inheritance, Pan Books (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     'Glass of champ?' she called, skipping into the kitchen.

Borrowed from French champ (“field”).

• champe (obsolete?)

champ (plural champs)

1. (architecture) the field or ground on which carving appears in relief
2. (heraldry) the field of a shield

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

From Middle French champ, from Old French champ, inherited from Latin campus (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of camp.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃/

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• Homophones: champs, chant, chants
• Hyphenation: champ

champ m (plural champs)

1. field in its various senses, including:
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     ...before a in French an original c has the sound sh, and is spelt ch, as in champ (campus), chambre (camera).

   1. a wide open space
   2. an area of study
   3. (mathematics) a vector field, tensor field, or scalar field (but not a commutative ring with identity for which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse, cf. corps)
   4. (heraldry) the background of a shield's design

• camp
• campagne
• campanile
• campus
• champagne
• champêtre

• “champ” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• chanp
• camp (Old Northern French)

From Latin campus.

• IPA^(key): /tʃãmp/

champ m (oblique plural chans, nominative singular chans, nominative plural champ)

1. field
2. (by extension) battlefield

• Middle French: champ
  • French: champ
• Walloon: tchamp

• IPA^(key): [tʃam], [tʃamp], [dʒam], [dʒamp]

champ (third-person singular present champs, present participle champin, past champit, past participle champit)

1. to mash, crush, pound
2. to chew voraciously

• champer (“an implement for mashing or crushing etc., a pestle”)
• champers (“mashed potatoes”)

champ (plural champs)

1. (geography) a stretch of ground trodden into a miry state, a quagmire

champ

1. Aspirate mutation of camp.