champ
Other forms: champs; champing; champed
A champ is someone who wins a contest or a prize. The winner of an elementary school fifty-yard dash is a champ.
Champ is shorthand for champion — in other words, a winner or a victor. You might describe your favorite football team as a bunch of champs after they win the World Series. Another way to use the word champ is as a verb meaning "chomp," especially the way a horse bites nervously or eagerly at its bit. The original meaning of champ is "chew noisily," and the biting horse definition came next, in the 1600's.
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someone who has won first place in a competitionsynonyms: champion, title-holdertypes:record-breaker, record-holdersomeone or something recognized for having done something better, faster, or to a greater degree than anyone elsetype of:
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chafe at the bit, like horses
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chew noisily
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