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Champ   /tʃæmp/   Listen
Champ

noun
1.
Someone who has won first place in a competition.  Synonyms: champion, title-holder.
verb
(past & past part. champed; pres. part. champing)
1.
Chafe at the bit, like horses.
2.
Chew noisily.  Synonym: chomp.






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"Champ" Quotes from Famous Books



... entire passage from which these words are taken is to be found in Froissart's chronicles, and it runs as follows, the spelling being modernized: 'Que nous etions rejouis quand nous chevaussions a l'aventure et que nous pouvions trouver sur le champ un riche prieur ou marchand ou des mulets de Montpellier, de Narbonne, de Carcassone, de Limoux, de Beziers, de Toulouse, charges de draps, de brunelles, de pelleterie, venant de la foire de Landit, d'epiceries venant de Bruges, de draps de soie, de Damas ou d'Alexandrie. Les ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker

... Champ du Mai orders for a general illumination were given, and that the tricolour flag should be displayed from the windows. The greater number of the inhabitants paid no attention to the desires of the authorities, and the officers ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... m'en servir pour arriver a des remarques nouvelles; employer encore ces remarques a perfectionner les distributions; faire sortir enfin de cette fecondation mutuelle des deux sciences, l'une par l'autre, un systeme zoologique propre a servir d'introducteur et de guide dans le champ de l'anatomie, et un corps de doctrine anatomique propre a servir de developpement et ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various

... animal in question had refused to enter the door of the car that had been indicated as his Pullman. "Missouri Slim" called three other ex-natives of Champ Clark's state to his assistance. They fearlessly put a shoulder under each of the mule's quarters. Then they grunted a unanimous "heave," and lifted the struggling animal off its feet. As a perfect matter of course, they walked right into the car with him with no more trouble than if ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... driven from Meudon in a hired carriage to the corner of the Champ de Mars, in those days still innocent of glass houses and exhibition buildings, for Paris was not yet the toy-shop of the world; and from the Champ de Mars they came on foot through the ill-paved, feebly lighted streets. In the Ruelle St. Jacob itself there was only one ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman


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