chow
see also: Chow
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /tʃaʊ/
Noun

chow (uncountable)

  1. (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
    I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
  2. A Chow Chow.
    • 1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
      ‘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.’
  3. (chiefly Australian, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter V, p. 74,
      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.
    • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 11:
      ‘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!’
Translations Verb

chow (chows, present participle chowing; past and past participle chowed)

  1. (slang, South Africa) To eat.
Noun

chow (plural chows)

  1. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief#Adjective|chief city of such a district.
Noun

chow (plural chows)

  1. (mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
Verb

chow (chows, present participle chowing; past and past participle chowed)

  1. (mahjong) To call#Verb|call a discarded tile to produce#Verb|produce a chow.

Chow
Pronunciation Proper noun
  1. Surname
  2. (obsolete) Alternative form of Zhou#English|Zhou (“dynasty, realm, and era”)



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