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View synonyms for chow down

chow down

verb

  1. informal.
    to eat heartily
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Idioms and Phrases

Eat, as in He's always ready to chow down at dinner time . Originally military slang, this term is now more widely used. The noun chow in the sense of food, originating from either Chinese or pidgin English in the 18th century, also appears in such terms as chow line , a line of people waiting for food, and chow time , mealtime. [ Slang ; mid-1900s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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