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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