meaning of chocs

1. CHOCS A generalisation of CCS. ["A Calculus of Higher-Order Communicating Systems", B. Thomsen, 16th POPL pp. 143-154 1989]. choke 1. To reject input, often ungracefully. "NULs make System Vs "lpr1" choke. " "I tried building an Emacs binary to use X, but "cpp1" choked on all those "#define"s. " See barf, gag. 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. " [Jargon File] chomp 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. The hand may be pointed at the object of complaint, and for real emphasis you can use both hands at once. Doing this to a person is equivalent to saying "You chomper!" If you point the gesture at yourself, it is a humble but humorous admission of some failure. You might do this if someone told you that a program you had written had failed in some surprising way and you felt dumb for not having anticipated it.

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