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chow tar

chow tar is the alternative spelling of chao ta.

Meaning of chao ta

Adjective

chao ta (comparative more chao ta, superlative most chao ta)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial) Burnt and charred (e.g., from overcooking).
    • The 'chao ta' (burnt) portions of the bak kwa indicate that the meat has been exposed to extremely high temperatures.2015 February 18, Andrea Seet, quoting Dr Wong Seng Weng, “How many floors to walk up to burn off that bak kwa? A guide to post-CNY exercise”, in The New Paper, Singapore

Forms of chow tar

comparativemore chow tar
superlativemost chow tar

Questions about chow tar

What is chow tar the alternative spelling of?
Chow tar is the alternative spelling of chao ta.

Words near chow tar in the dictionary

  1. chow mein
  2. chow mein bun
  3. chow mein buns
  4. chow ta
  5. chow tah
  6. chow tar
  7. chow time
  8. chow-chow
  9. chow-chows
  10. Chowan
  11. Chowan County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chow tar (page history and authors); chao ta (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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