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chop house

chop house is the alternative form of chophouse.

Meaning of chophouse

Noun

chophouse (plural chophouses)

  1. (historical) An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.
    • Temple & his Brother & I dined in their chambers where we had dinner brought thinking it a more genteel & agreable way than in a Chophouse.1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 231
  2. (Nigeria) Any restaurant.
  3. A custom house in China where transit duties are levied.
    • the South Chop-house on the southern shore of the river bears S.S.W.1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants

Forms of chop house

pluralchop houses

Questions about chop house

What is chop house the alternative form of?
Chop house is the alternative form of chophouse.

Words near chop house in the dictionary

  1. chop cup
  2. chop cups
  3. chop dollar
  4. chop dollars
  5. chop down
  6. chop house
  7. chop houses
  8. chop it up
  9. chop logic
  10. chop logics
  11. chop mill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chop house (page history and authors); chophouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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