Chow Definition

chou
chowing, chows
noun
chows
Any of a breed of medium-sized dog, originally from China, with a thick, dark coat and a blue-black tongue.
Webster's New World
Food or mealtime.
Webster's New World
A Chinese breed of dog; the Chow Chow.
Wiktionary

(slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.

I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
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(chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.

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Synonyms:
verb
To eat.
Chowed down on the meat and potatoes.
American Heritage

(slang, South Africa) To eat.

Wiktionary
(Mahjong) To (use a tile or tiles to) piece together a winning combination of tiles.
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pronoun

A common Chinese surname.

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(improper) An alternative form of Zhou (dynasty, realm, & era)

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idiom
chow down
  • to eat a meal
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Chow

Noun

Singular:
chow
Plural:
chows

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Chow

Origin of Chow

  • Possibly from Cantonese zaap6 food, miscellany chop suey

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • An irregular romanization of Mandarin Chinese 周 (Zhōu)

    From Wiktionary

  • Shortened from chow-chow.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Chinese.

    From Wiktionary

Chow Sentence Examples

  • They place their puppies directly on adult dog chow.

  • The specials board all had Chinese, not Japanese translations, and the specials comprised many of prawn chow mein and lemon chicken.

  • Then add the honey, soya sauce and Stir-fry Chow Mein Sauce to the pan along with the drained noodles and pork.

  • Of all the ancient books not one was more prized by him than the Yi-king, or " The Book of Changes," the rudiments of which are assigned to Fuh-hi about the 30th century B.C. Those rudiments, however, are merely the 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams, composed of a whole and a broken line (, - -), without any text or explanation of them earlier than the rise of the Chow dynasty.

  • Chiu chow cooking originated in the Swatow district of eastern Guangdong province.

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Words Starting With

CCHCHO

Words Ending With

WOWHOW

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chow

Words Starting With C and Ending With W

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