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Meaning of chophouse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.
    historical
  2. Any restaurant.
    Nigeria
  3. A custom house in China where transit duties are levied.

Examples

“Temple & his Brother & I dined in their chambers where we had dinner brought thinking it a more genteel & agreable way than in a Chophouse.”
“But franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-three billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather than national advertising.”
“the South Chop-house on the southern shore of the river bears S.S.W.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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