Chop house

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(now chiefly historical) An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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• chophouses
• chop house

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