chomper

plural chompers

1. rareOne who, or that which, chomps.

   I am a chomper of teeth and a displayer of feelings.

   1993, Esther D Rothblum, Kathleen A Brehony, Boston marriages: romantic but asexual relationships among contemporary lesbians

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   Hollier was a chomper, his jaws working up and down like pistons, and without seeming to be greedy he ate a great deal.

   1983, Robertson Davies, The rebel angels

   Today’s surround sound is people chomping popcorn and scrunching sweet wrappers. I don’t know why it seems so much worse. After all, popcorn was always with us. Maybe when I was younger and dating — or married but still younger — I was better at zoning out the chompers.

   2026 September 11, Robert Shrimsley, “Does anyone still go to the cinema?”, in Financial Times

2. informalA tooth.

   I wanted an ancient shark tooth, a chomper that last saw use by a predator perhaps 25 million years ago.

   2003, Curtis J Badger, Virginia's wild side: fifty outdoor adventures from the mountains to the ocean