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chow down
verb
- informal.to eat heartily
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]Example Sentences
So they brought in Alix Earle, a classically attractive blonde TikTokker, to wear a bikini and chow down on a gross-looking burger.
For example, there is some debate about whether the large jaws of P. boisei were used to crack hard foods like nuts or simply chow down on plants.
He pointed to a row of chairs near the cash register as we began to chow down.
Of course, to Donny Darko, a day in the life of an immigrant in the U.S. is to wake up in jail, get your transgender operation before you have your dogmeat breakfast, then take over Seattle or a small town in Ohio before you chow down on your favorite feline for dinner.
On Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., festival attendees can demo bikes, head out on group rides, sharpen their skills, chow down at food trucks and kick back with live music.
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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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