octochamp

noun
/ˈɒktəʊˌt͡ʃamp/UK

Etymology

From octo- (“eight”) + champ (short form of champion).

  1. inherited from champen
  2. prefixed as octochamp — “octo + champ

Definitions

  1. A winner of eight consecutive heats of the British television game show Countdown.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:octochamp.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for octochamp. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA