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chow

Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaʊ/

The English word “chow” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Food, especially snacks.
  2. Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
  3. A Chow Chow.
  4. A Chinese person.
  5. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
  6. A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
  7. A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.

verb

  1. To eat.
  2. To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.

Etymology

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

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