Chophouse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chophouse is a noun meaning (now chiefly historical) An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.
Meaning
(now chiefly historical) An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.
More Meanings
- (Nigeria) Any restaurant.
- A custom house in China where transit duties are levied.
Example Sentences
the South Chop-house on the southern shore of the river bears S.S.W.
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.
Word Forms
- chophouses
- chop house
Synonyms for chophouse
Depending on context, synonyms include steakhouse.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include steakhouse, hashhouse, monkey-house, canhouse, chicken house, cat-house.
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