chipmunk

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Scrabble points
21
Words With Friends
25
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃɪp.mʌŋk/
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/ˈt͡ʃɪp.mʌŋk/ · /ˈt͡ʃɪt.mʌŋk/ · [ˈt̠͡ʃɪʔmʌŋk]

Definition of chipmunk

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any of the subtribe Tamiina of small, striped rodents; they are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia.
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noun

  1. Any of the subtribe Tamiina of small, striped rodents; they are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia.

verb

  1. (transitive)To speed up (an audio recording, especially a song), to make the voices high-pitched.
    “The Dipset capo favors breezy, bass-heavy beats instead of chipmunked soul samples to celebrate the 'hood's favorite season.”
  2. (transitive)To fill (one's mouth or cheeks) with food.
    “Less than a minute to go and she's chewing almost viciously, her stuffed cheeks all chipmunked out like Dizzy Gillespie's in midsolo.”
  3. (transitive)To stuff (food) into one's mouth or cheeks, sometimes as part of competitive eating.
    “She chipmunked her breakfast into a porcelain cheek.”

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Etymology

1832; alteration (influenced by chipping squirrel) of earlier chitmunk, from older Ojibwe ačitamo˙nˀ (“squirrels”) (modern ajidamoo), literally ‘those who descend headlong’, from ačit- (“headfirst, face-down”) (compare modern ajijibizo (“he falls…

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1832; alteration (influenced by chipping squirrel) of earlier chitmunk, from older Ojibwe ačitamo˙nˀ (“squirrels”) (modern ajidamoo), literally ‘those who descend headlong’, from ačit- (“headfirst, face-down”) (compare modern ajijibizo (“he falls headfirst”), ajidagoojin (“he hangs upside down”)). The English verb developed due to the high-pitched voices of the American puppet and cartoon chipmunks in the group Alvin and the Chipmunks, who later starred in a popular children's TV show in the 1980s.

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