chow

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Shortened from chow-chow.

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chow (usually uncountable; plural chows)

  1. (Australian, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
  2. (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
    I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
  3. A Chinese breed of dog; the chow-chow.
    • 1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
      ‘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.’
    • 1988 March 4, Jane Weinberg, “First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe”, Chicago Reader:
      While we were talking, one of the chows, the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him.

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