Verb (used with object) : The horses champed the oats.    From Dictionary.com. 

Our daughter adores going to shopping malls, simply because they're full of what I call 'coin chomping chimps.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juliet Linley: Coin-Chomping for Children's Charities] Reference

His picture of his mother was that of a lioness calmly 'chomping' everything within sight without concern for the mayhem around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1] Reference

"I'm kind of chomping at the bit now," Shields said.    From Wordnik.com.  [news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com] Reference

Our sales people are kind of chomping at the bit to be able to go out and sell it.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

More often than not these days, people say "chomping," which means much the same thing, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference

Our panel, just chomping at the bit for this lineup.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2008] Reference

If I was one I'd be 'chomping' at this opportunity. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [SurvivalBlog.com] Reference

I know you're chomping at the bit for the Hooters story.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2005] Reference

Pop kept on chomping away, a slow feeder and appreciative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference

They indicate that they are "chomping at the bit right now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2002] Reference

At a moment of stress, Matt starts chomping on Cap'n Crunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Head Cases] Reference

Chris Pixley, I understand, I'm told you're chomping at the bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2004] Reference

In fact, the president kept chomping at the bit to come down here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference

HAMMER: Almost like they were chomping at the bit to go after her.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2007] Reference

So you want a guy who is chomping at the bit to play the Ryder Cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul McGinley: 'It's very important we win the Ryder Cup again'] Reference

KING: Sam Champion, aren't you chomping at the bit to be around it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2005] Reference

His ethereal style makes enviro Gore look like a cigar-chomping pol.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Choirboys] Reference

She would have looked great chomping on a cigar in a smoke-filled room.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2004] Reference

He would take his arms and make a chomping motion at her across the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome to Space Island] Reference

Researchers are chomping at the bit to do research with nongovernment lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Stem Cell Era] Reference

His parents said he was chomping at the bit to have his first opportunity to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2003] Reference

ARYN BAKER, "TIME" MAGAZINE: Well, I think they're chomping at the bit a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008] Reference

Our legal experts have been following this case and they are chomping at the bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2007] Reference

Don's already made the Guinness Book of Records for chomping down the Big Mac number.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2004] Reference

KAGAN: Well, Barry, I have a feeling you're chomping at the bit there waiting to get in.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2003] Reference

Some that paralyze, some that sting, some that burn, and all that soften you for chomping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic X] Reference

And I know that they have been chomping at the bit to straighten us out over here on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2008] Reference

I grew up chomping on fresh tomatoes like they were apples, the juice dribbling down my chin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fedele Bauccio: Planting Seeds of Change on Campus] Reference

Tamino's nemesis serpent has but a momentary, ineffectual grip; its chomping teeth are all show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Punt: Magic Flute at Santa Fe Opera] Reference

HAMMER: I imagine you have been just chomping (sic) at the bit with what ` s been going on lately.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2007] Reference

I ` ve been chomping at the bit, waiting for those issues to come up, because they are so crucial.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007] Reference

Especially popular are its jerseys, featuring the team's logo, a shark chomping on a hockey stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It Show Time For Hockey?] Reference

NGUYEN: Well, Cheri, lets me allow you to jump in because I'm sure you're just chomping at the bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2006] Reference

Even the skull had been eaten, except for the part of the jaw with those big white grass-chomping teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting the Thylacine] Reference

I guess if you ran four or five miles with some herd dog chomping at your heels you'd calm down some too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messages from Upstate] Reference

So with my kids chomping away in the back seat, we left the parking lot and I turned into the main street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Distracted driving: Why kids’ snacks and mom’s driving don’t mix] Reference

Looking at cracks all day doesn't do much for me except get me chomping, like my Australian Blue Heeler, Ely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messages from Upstate] Reference

The word "producer" evokes thoughts of a crass, cigar-chomping entrepreneur, more interested in profit than art.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Wolper obituary] Reference

After 3 hours of chomping down on burgers and avocado dip, I found that something else was chomping down on me — pesky mosquitoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Weekender: Mosquito madness—and how to fight bites] Reference