chow
noun /tʃaʊ/
/tʃaʊ/
- [uncountable] (slang) food
- ‘Time for some chow!’
- (also chow chow)[countable] a dog with long thick hair, a curly tail and a blue-black tongue, originally from China
Word Originlate 19th cent.: shortened from of chow chow, pidgin English, of unknown ultimate origin.