chophouse

See also: chop house

English

Alternative forms

• chop house

Etymology

chop +‎ house. For Chinese customs sense, see chop (“quality”).

Noun

chophouse (plural chophouses)

1. (now chiefly historical) An inexpensive restaurant that specializes in chops or steaks; a steakhouse.
   • 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 231:

     Temple & his Brother & I dined in their chambers where we had dinner brought thinking it a more genteel & agreable way than in a Chophouse.

2. (Nigeria) Any restaurant.
3. A custom house in China where transit duties are levied.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of S. W. Williams to this entry?)