If you chew your lips or your fingernails, you keep biting them because you are nervous. He chewed his lower lip nervously
If you chew gum or tobacco, you keep biting it and moving it around your mouth to taste the flavour of it. You do not swallow it. One girl was chewing gum
If a person or animal chews an object, they bite it with their teeth. They pause and chew their pencils One owner left his pet under the stairs where the animal chewed through electric cables. = bite
Exclamation used by golfers who want their ball to stop-now! (See also bite, grow teeth, growl, juice ')
A component of network lag, chew is the percentage of packets that are 'eaten' by the network connection Ideally no packets should be lost, but the Internet is often anything but ideal