chow

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chow (usually uncountable; plural chows)

  1. (slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
    I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
  2. (uncountable) Animal food, especially that of cats and dogs.
    We need more puppy chow.
  3. A Chinese breed of dog, frequently known as the chow chow.
    • 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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