1. To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something of which more was
bitten off than one can. Probably related to gnashing of teeth.
2. To bite the bag; See {bagbiter}.
A hand gesture commonly accompanies this. To perform it, hold the
four fingers together and place the thumb against their tips. Now
open and close your hand rapidly to suggest a biting action (much
like what Pac-Man does in the classic video game, though this
pantomime seems to predate that). The gesture alone means `chomp
chomp' (see Verb Doubling in the Jargon Construction section of the
Prependices). The hand may be pointed at the object of complaint, and
for real emphasis you can use both hands at once. Doing this to a
person is equivalent to saying "You chomper!" If you point the
gesture at yourself, it is a humble but humorous admission of some
failure. You might do this if someone told you that a program you had
written had failed in some surprising way and you felt dumb for not
having anticipated it.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {bagbiting}{chomper}{deserves to lose}]