Champs

/tʃæmps/ noun

Definition

Winners or champions of a competition or contest; also can mean to bite or chew noisily.

Etymology

Short for 'champion,' from Old French 'campion,' referring to a fighter or warrior in a field ('camp'). As a verb, from Old English or onomatopoeia for the sound of chewing.

Kelly Says

The word 'champ' as in champion comes from the word for a field or battlefield—so a champion was literally 'the one from the field' or the warrior who won on the battlefield!

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