chow
IPA: tʃˈaʊ
noun
- (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
- (Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
- A Chow Chow.
- (chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
- A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
- (mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
- A surname from Chinese.
- A Chow Chow (Chinese breed of dog).
- (obsolete) Alternative form of Zhou (“dynasty, realm, and era”) [A people of ancient China.]
verb
- (slang, South Africa) To eat.
- (mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
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Examples of "chow" in Sentences
- Another popular food is bunny chow.
- Chow is an orthopaedic surgeon by profession.
- Like the chow chow, the breed has a blue tongue.
- Today the Chow Chow is most commonly kept as a pet.
- Chows cannot be melded by discards, only pongs and kongs.
- No melded chows are allowed in and concealed hands are common.
- Chow chow is a mixture of pickled vegetables made into a salad.
- The Chow Chow is the dog breed most affected by elbow dysplasia.
- They resemble the Chow Chow due to having the same blue black tongue.
- To dumb this down, a cocker spaniel is not a chow chow, but they are both dogs.
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