chow
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Is chow a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of chow?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.Examples: "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.""slanguncountableusually
2. (Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.Trinidad-and-Tobagouncountableusually
3. (chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.Examples: "These were the creatures Nawnim had been amazed to see about him on the day of his arrival. When he inquired about them, Anna told him they were Japs an' Chows."; "‘Now look here old man if you should ever bump into an interesting Chow from over the river – one with access, follow me? – just you remember High Haven!’"Australiaarchaicslanguncountableusually
verb (English)
1. (slang, South Africa) To eat.South-Africaslang
noun (English)
1. (mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.Synonyms: sequence
2. (mahjong) A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.Synonyms: chii
verb (English)
1. (mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.Examples: "[…] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't."Synonyms: chii
name (English)
1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Zhou (“dynasty, realm, and era”).alt-ofalternativeobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary