Meaning of Chow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Food, especially snacks.
   slang, uncountable, usually
2. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
3. A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
4. A surname from Cantonese.
5. A Chow Chow (Chinese breed of dog).
6. Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
   Trinidad-and-Tobago, uncountable, usually
7. A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.
8. A Chow Chow.
   uncountable, usually
9. A Chinese person.
   Australia, archaic, slang, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“I'm going to pick⟳ up some chow for dinner.”

“Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need⟳ is the Bob Hope⟳ show⟳."”

“‘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.’”

“While we were talking, one of the chows, the rusty one, had come⟳ over to me and I was absently petting him.”

“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.”

“‘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!’”

“Colin was a Chow; an interesting Chinese breed⟳ that looks a bit like⟳ a Pomeranian on steroids[.]”

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