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In some senses, chow is marked as slang, archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
chow
/t͡ʃaʊ/
noun 8verb 2name 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, better, interesting
VERB + CHOW
got, ordered, pick, wishes
CHOW + NOUN
chinese, dinner, less, mein, room
PREP.
in, up
ADV.
then
Definitions
noun
1
Food, especially snacks.
I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show."
2
Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
3
A Chow Chow.
‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’
While we were talking, one of the chows, the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him.
4
A Chinese person.
These were the creatures Nawnim had been amazed to see about him on the day of his arrival. When he inquired about them, Anna told him they were Japs an' Chows.
‘Now look here old man if you should ever bump into an interesting Chow from over the river – one with access, follow me? – just you remember High Haven!’
verb
1
To eat.
noun
1
A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
Wiktionary02
Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show."
Wiktionary03
‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’
Wiktionary04
[…] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.
Wiktionary05
Colin was a Chow; an interesting Chinese breed that looks a bit like a Pomeranian on steroids[.]
Wiktionary06
As for me, I don't eat meat, so I ordered veg chow mein.
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