chow

Meanings

1. Food, especially snacks.
2. Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
3. A Chow Chow.
4. A Chinese person.

1. To eat.

1. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.

1. A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
2. A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.

1. To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.

1. A surname from Cantonese.
2. Alternative form of Zhou (“dynasty, realm, and era”).

1. A Chow Chow (Chinese breed of dog).

Etymology

Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.