:choad: /chohd/ /n./ Synonym for `penis' used in
alt.tasteless and popularized by the denizens thereof. They
say: "We think maybe it's from Middle English but we're all too
damned lazy to check the OED." [I'm not. It isn't. --ESR] This
term is alleged to have been inherited through 1960s underground
comics, and to have been recently sighted in the Beavis and
Butthead cartoons. Speakers of the Hindi, Bengali and Gujarati
languages have confirmed that `choad' is in fact an Indian
vernacular word equivalent to `fuck'; it is therefore likely to
have entered English slang via the British Raj.

:choke: /v./ 1. To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs
make System V's `lpr(1)' choke." "I tried building an
{EMACS} binary to use {X}, but `cpp(1)' choked on all
those `#define's." See {barf}, {gag}, {vi}.
2. [MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with some
flair or bravado; the popular definition is "to snatch defeat from
the jaws of victory."

:chomp: /vi./ To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something
of which more was bitten off than one can. Probably related to
gnashing of teeth. See {bagbiter}.

A hand gesture commonly accompanies this. To perform it, hold the
four fingers together and place the thumb against their tips. Now
open and close your hand rapidly to suggest a biting action (much
like what Pac-Man does in the classic video game, though this
pantomime seems to predate that). The gesture alone means `chomp
chomp' (see "{Verb Doubling}" in the "{Jargon
Construction}" section of the Prependices). The hand may be