Definition of chomps:
(v) :
(intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
(n) :
The act of chomping (see below)
(v) :
(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
(n) :
(computing, rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.