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chow

1   [chou] Informal.
noun
1.
food, especially hearty dishes or a meal.
Verb phrase
2.
chow down, to eat; eat a meal, especially the main meal of the day: In the army we usually chow down at 6 p.m.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; short for chow-chow
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chow

2   [chou]
noun (often initial capital letter)
chow chow.
Origin:
short form

Chow

   [chou; Chin. joh]
noun
Chou.

Chow

   [chou]
noun Australian Disparaging.
a Chinese.
Origin:
1870–75; special use of chow1
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chow (tʃaʊ)
 
—n
1.  informal food
2.  short for chow-chow

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Word Origin & History

chow
"food," 1856, Amer.Eng. (originally in California), from Chinese pidgin Eng. chow-chow (1795) "food," reduplication of Chinese cha or tsa "mixed." The dog breed of the same name is from 1886, of unknown origin, but some suggest a link to the Chinese tendency to see dogs as edible.
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chow definition


  1. n.
    food. : What time is chow served around here?
  2. tv. & in.
    to eat (something). (See also chow down.) : I've been chowing canned tuna and stale bagels to save money.

  3. Go to ciao. :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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