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Word entry · 4 letters

chow

Best crossword clue

"Casual word for food"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /t͡ʃaʊ/Part of speech nounSorted chowStarts with CEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Food, or a medium-sized dog breed with a thick coat and blue-black tongue.

Word origin

Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.

Used in a sentence

  • I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
  • Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show."
  • ‘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.’

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