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chophouse

[ chop-hous ]

noun

, plural chop·hous·es [chop, -hou-ziz].
  1. a restaurant specializing in chop, steaks, and the like.


chophouse

1

/ ˈtʃɒpˌhaʊs /

noun

  1. (formerly) a customs house in China


chophouse

2

/ ˈtʃɒpˌhaʊs /

noun

  1. a restaurant specializing in steaks, grills, chops, etc

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Word History and Origins

Origin of chophouse1

First recorded in 1680–90; chop 1 + house

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Example Sentences

Noses are offended by garlic, swill and fried meat coming from some chophouse.

A scalemakers, a fine-drawers, and Bettys chophouse, were all to be found there.

During two decades "Chamberlin's," half clubhouse and half chophouse, was all a rendezvous.

Then its glory departed as a centre of speculations, but its renown as an old-fashioned chophouse remained till 1873.

My favorite chophouse has ever been a hardwood floor, a loaf of Mills Seminary maiden, and a roof of flat piano.

That is the chophouse that might be put in the cellar of that glorious old round-towered building at 59 Ann Street.

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