chaw
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
- chawer noun
Example Sentences
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Innumerable bugs, each one less than half the size of a housefly, but primed to chaw their way through a $16-billion California industry exactly like you did to that bag of chips.
From Los Angeles Times
The lieutenant spat again, his ginger chaw just missing my toes.
From Literature
“He’s chawing at the bit to try to get out on the field and get going,” Servais said.
From Seattle Times
Their mouths hung open in wide O’s, here a line of brown chaw drool streaming down a slack cheek, waxy and white in the headlights.
From New York Times
But civilization and its refinements have gained a foothold; tobacco chewers are spitting their chaw juices into upmarket iced tea bottles and farmers are raising llamas.
From New York Times
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