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midnight chow

midnight chow noun: a meal served in the mess hall around midnight or later.

Noun

midnight chow (uncountable)

  1. (US, informal) A meal served in the mess hall around midnight or later.
    • After the ball was over and the taxi-cab was underway some one suggested midnight chow, permitted by the censor.1917, in United States Marine Corps, The Marines Magazine, C. A. Ketcham (1917), page 27
    • Chief Petty Officer Paul Saylor, an electronics technician, and one of his men set out from the Operations Hut for their midnight chow. It was broad daylight, even at that hour, but visibility was literally zero.1957, Walter Sullivan, Quest for a Continent, McGraw-Hill, page 217

Questions about midnight chow

What does midnight chow mean?
Midnight chow means a meal served in the mess hall around midnight or later.
What part of speech is midnight chow?
Midnight chow is a noun.

Words near midnight chow in the dictionary

  1. midnight appointment
  2. midnight appointments
  3. midnight blue
  4. midnight blues
  5. midnight cactus
  6. midnight chow
  7. midnight feast
  8. midnight feasts
  9. midnight horror
  10. midnight horrors
  11. midnight in a coal mine

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