Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Food; victuals.
- intransitive verb To eat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The jowl: used only in the phrase “cheek for chow” (that is, cheek by jowl).
- noun A word forming part of the names of many places in China, indicating either a prefecture or district of the second rank or the chief city of such a district: thus, Ning-hai-chow may mean either the district of Ning-hai or the city of Ning-hai. Sometimes spelled chao, chau, and choo.
- noun A unit of weight in Bombay, used for gold and silver, and equal to three tenths of a troy grain.
- noun A unit of the nature of the square of a mass, used in the East Indies in the valuation of pearls. A Madras chow is 48 square grains troy, a Bombay chow 15.7 square grains.
- noun A Chinaman. [Colloq., Australia.]
- To chew.
- To grumble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in
Foochow . - noun a breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; -- same as
chowchow{3} , n..
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang, uncountable Food, especially
snacks . - noun A Chinese breed of dog; the chow-chow.
- noun slang A
Chinese person. - verb slang, South Africa To
eat . - verb To (use a tile or tiles to) piece together a winning combination of tiles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun informal terms for a meal
- noun breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China
- noun the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Justin chow … btw I watched “Forks” u guys looked great!
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The anxiety of constantly toadying to their social superiors seems to curb their appetite, researchers suspect, at least when their regular high-fiber, low-fat chow is on the menu.
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Someone Being Me -- Puppy chow is good stuff, too!
Uncle Austin's Granola | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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Well chow chow is used like an adjective to denote a combination of opposites.
Archive 2007-07-01 Anjali 2007
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Well chow chow is used like an adjective to denote a combination of opposites.
Chow Chow Bhat Anjali 2007
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I hate the idea of disappointing 800,000 comrades in chow!
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Christine -- Green chow chow is a spicy relish made with green tomatoes and peppers.
Joe Armstrong | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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No way Jose! the closest to undercover i've come is stalking prostitutes in chow kit in the dead of night and taking notes while my photographer tried his best to take tabloid-like shots without a flash.
Norah the Gender Spy Sharon Bakar 2006
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I hate the idea of disappointing 800,000 comrades in chow!
You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » 2006 » March 2006
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I concur, except the "sho" should be pronounced ch as in "chow".
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