chows

Noun (1)

chow (usually uncountable, plural chows)

1. (slang, usually) Food, especially snacks.
   • I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
2. (Trinidad-and-Tobago, usually) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
3. (usually) A Chow Chow.
   • ‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts
4. (Australia, archaic, slang, usually) A Chinese person.
   • These were the creatures Nawnim had been amazed to see about him on the day of his arrival. When he inquired about them, Anna told him they were Japs an' Chows.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 74

Noun (2)

chow (plural chows)

1. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.

Noun (3)

chow (plural chows)

1. A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.

   Synonyms:

   sequence

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