chews

Noun

chew (countable and uncountable, plural chews)

1. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
   • I popped the gum into my mouth and gave it a chew.
2. Level of chewiness.
   • Once it's cooked, it's not enough of a hard chew to count.1996, Adele Puhn, The 5-Day Miracle Diet Companion, →ISBN
3. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
   • Phillip purchased a bag of licorice chews at the drugstore.
4. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
   • The school had banned chew and smokes from the school grounds, even for adults.
5. (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
   • The ballplayers sat on the bench watching the rain, glumly working their chews.
6. (informal, uncountable) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
   • Avoiding Tape Chew. In the early days of the ADAT, the "V" blocks (two arms that thread the tape around the front of the head) could sometimes get out of alignment and "chew" the outside track […]1995, Keyboard, volume 21, numbers 7-12, page 138

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