chomp

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   The act of chomping (see below)
2. 2
   A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.

Verb

1. 1
   To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
2. 2
   To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).