chipmunk

plural chipmunks · alternative obsolete chipmuck · alternative obsolete chitmunk

1. Any of certain the small, striped rodents, all found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk, placed in the taxonomic subtribe Tamiina.

present singular third person chipmunks · participle present chipmunking · participle past chipmunked · past chipmunked · alternative obsolete chipmuck · alternative obsolete chitmunk

1. transitiveTo speed up (an audio recording, especially a song), to make the voices high-pitched.

   The Dipset capo favors breezy, bass-heavy beats instead of chipmunked soul samples to celebrate the 'hood's favorite season.

   2005, Vibe, volume 13, number 10, page 232

2. transitiveTo fill (one's mouth or cheeks) with food.

   Less than a minute to go and she's chewing almost viciously, her stuffed cheeks all chipmunked out like Dizzy Gillespie's in midsolo.

   2006, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book

3. transitiveTo stuff (food) into one's mouth or cheeks, sometimes as part of competitive eating.

   She chipmunked her breakfast into a porcelain cheek.

   2011, Robert Buettner, Orphan's Destiny