Chow

Quick meaning: Chow is a noun meaning (Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.

Meaning

(Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.

More Meanings

1. A Chow Chow.
2. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
3. (mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
4. (mahjong) A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.
5. (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
6. (chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
7. (slang, South Africa) To eat.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

[…] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.

Word Forms

• chows
• chowing
• chowed

Synonyms for chow

Depending on context, synonyms include sequence, chii, grub, eats, chow chow, chuck.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eats, chuck, chow chow, grub, food, supper.

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