chow

Chow

 (jō)

See Zhou.

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chow ¹

 (chou)

n.

See chow chow.

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[Variant of chow chow.]

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chow ²

 (chou) Slang

n.

Food; victuals.

intr.v. chowed, chow·ing, chows

To eat: chowed down on the meat and potatoes.

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[Possibly from Cantonese zaap6, food, miscellany; see chop suey.]

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chow

(tʃaʊ)

n

1. informal food

2. (Breeds) short for chow-chow¹

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chow¹

(tʃaʊ) Slang. n.

1. food, esp. hearty dishes or a meal.

v.i.

2. to eat, esp. heartily (usu. fol. by down).

[1855–60, Amer.; short for chow -chow]

chow²

(tʃaʊ)

n. (often cap.)

chow chow.

[short form]

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Chow - the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism Chou, Chou dynasty, Chow dynasty, Zhou, Zhou dynasty dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
	2.	chow - informal terms for a meal     chuck, eats, grub fare - the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed
	3.	chow - 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 chow chow spitz - any of various stocky heavy-coated breeds of dogs native to northern regions having pointed muzzles and erect ears with a curled furry tail

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chow

noun

Slang. Something fit to be eaten:

aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual.

Slang: eats, grub.

verb

Slang. To take (food) into the body as nourishment:

consume, devour, eat, fare, ingest, partake.

Idioms: break bread, have a bite.

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Translations

chow-chow

cane cineseforaggio

chow

¹ [tʃaʊ] N (= dog) → chow-chow m, perro m chino

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chow

² [tʃaʊ] N (esp US) (= food) → comida f

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chow

[ˈtʃaʊ] n (= dog) → chow-chow m

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chow

n (inf: = food) → was zu mampfen (inf)

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chow(chow)

n (= dog) → Chow-Chow m

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chow

[tʃaʊ] n (also chow-chow) (dog) → chow chow m inv

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