1. any of a breed of heavyset dog originating in china, having a long, dense, reddish-brown or black coat and a blue-black tongue. also called chow chow.
2. food; victuals.
3. to eat: chowed down on the meat and potatoes.

1. food, especially snacks.
2. A chinese breed of dog; the chow-chow.
3. A chinese person.
4. to eat.
5. to (use a tile or tiles to) piece together a winning combination of tiles.

1. A prefecture or district of the second rank in china, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in Foochow.
2. a breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; -- same as chowchow{3}, n..

1. to chew.
2. to grumble.
3. the jowl: used only in the phrase “cheek for chow” (that is, cheek by jowl).
4. A word forming part of the names of many places in china, indicating either a prefecture or district of the second rank or the chief city of such a district: thus, Ning-hai-chow may mean either the district of Ning-hai or the city of Ning-hai. sometimes spelled chao, chau, and choo.
5. A unit of weight in Bombay, used for gold and silver, and equal to three tenths of a troy grain.
6. A unit of the nature of the square of a mass, used in the east indies in the valuation of pearls. A madras chow is 48 square grains troy, a Bombay chow 15.7 square grains.
7. A chinaman. [colloq., australia.]

1. informal terms for a meal
2. breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern china
3. the imperial dynasty of china from 1122 to 221 bc; notable for the rise of confucianism and taoism