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say it: champ
champ is a verb and noun meaning "chafe at the bit, like horses". It carries 3 recorded senses.
chafe at the bit, like horses
someone who has won first place in a competition
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for champ come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.