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chophouses

chophouses is the plural 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

Questions about chophouses

What is chophouses the plural of?
Chophouses is the plural of chophouse.

Words near chophouses in the dictionary

  1. chopes
  2. chopette
  3. chopettes
  4. chopfallen
  5. chophouse
  6. chophouses
  7. Chopi
  8. chopin
  9. chopine
  10. chopines
  11. choping

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